Nathan’s Blog

I’ve had to do this a few times, and always forget how so I’m noting it down here. With most linux applications, its simple to move to a new system: you copy the “dot” file or directory from the old system to the new home directory.

However, Evolution stores the account data in GConf which is slightly trickier to copy. This article explains the process, but it can boiled down to this:

1. Copy the existing .evolution  to ~
2. Run gconftool-2 –shutdown
3. Copy the existing .gconf/apps/evolution to ~/.gconf/apps
4. Start Evolution