On Tuesday 21 January 2003 09:38 am, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 07:59, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > > On Saturday 18 January 2003 01:25 am, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 20:52, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 17:26, Christine McLellan wrote: > > > > > Martin - > > > > > > > > > > What do you mean by losing folder defaults? Do you mean which > > > > > folders are set as default mailbox, calendar, contacts, etc? > > > > > Or something about each Exchange folder that you are viewing > > > > > with Evo such as the email columns, sort order, threading? > > > > > And are these actual folders or vFolders? Have you submitted > > > > > a bug on this at > > > > > http://bugzilla.ximian.com? > > > > > > > > Christine, > > > > > > > > I am not Martin, but I am experiencing the latter, mostly with > > > > my "Threaded view" setting. And no, I have not submitted a bug > > > > > > this is mostly an FYI that may shine some light on some things. > > > > > > the "Threaded view" setting is not global, it is per-folder. > > > > > > opening a folder you've never opened before will use the global > > > setting (which is in the config.xmldb). I think it defaults to > > > off. There's actually no way to set this via the UI that I can > > > recall, but there used to be. > > > > Jeffrey, > > > > I have two copies of this, > > ~/evolution/config.xmldb & > > ~/evolution/private/config.xmldb > > > > Which one should I be editing to change the global defaults? > > the first one. the second one just holds your passwords.
Found and edited. Thanks. I hope this solves the problem so that "who cares what caused it." > > > > also, make sure you are running bonobo-conf 0.16, as that is the > > > only version of bonobo-conf that will reliably save config > > > settings when the system has write errors. > > > > What is the best way to test my version? > > rpm -qa | grep bonobo-conf I have libbonobo-conf0-0.16-1.ximian.1 bonobo-conf-0.16-1.ximian.1 so I guess that's not the reason for my problem. > > > not sure any of these FYI's light up any lightbulbs as to why you > > > may be having problems. > > > > > > now... assuming that doesn't solve it for ya, then the only other > > > explanation is that evolution-mail is not shutting down cleanly > > > and is thus not ever getting to the point where it flushes the > > > settings to disk. if you control-c or killev, this is likely the > > > problem. > > > > That happens sometimes as there are times when the "Evolution is > > closing..." box does not go away (for hours). Other times, I may > > exit the window manager without exiting Evolution first. BUT, this > > seems to happen even with a proper shutdown. > > *shrug* Well, hopefully, by my manually editing ~/evolution/config.xmldb, I have solved the problem so that the cause of the problem is rendered irrelevant. Thanks again. Art > > Jeff -- _______________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexion.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
