How can I reset Evolution?

rblampain · 12-02-2010, 07:54 AM

I have moved location and I now have a satellite internet connection but my machine is still configured to run Evolution under the old settings. I cannot find how to change that (user password, incoming and outgoing mail etc).

Can someone advise how to do this or point to suitable info?

I tried to rename ~/evolution and ~/.evolution then log in again but it makes no difference.

Thank you for your help

repo · 12-02-2010, 10:07 AM

rename or delete

Quote:

~/.evolution/
~/.gconf/apps/evolution/
~/.gnome2_private/Evolution

Kind regards

rblampain · 12-03-2010, 03:33 AM

Thank you for your answer (from a Belgian in .au), however, it makes no difference, it seems there is still another file stuffing things up somewhere, unless logging out and back in, after the changes, is not enough to trigger Evolution to ask for the settings. I will try to find that file and update the post accordingly.

rblampain · 12-03-2010, 04:13 AM

After having made the changes, it shows "/home/user1/" has no files named "evolution" but no other file of that name seems to be a candidate for change.
#find / -name evolution
/home/admin/.gconf/apps/evolution
/home/user2/.gconf/apps/evolution
/home/nasm/.gconf/apps/evolution
/usr/share/gnome/help/evolution
/usr/share/evolution
/usr/share/omf/evolution
/usr/share/pyshared/deskbar/handlers/evolution
/usr/share/doc/evolution
/usr/share/python-support/python-gnome2-desktop/gtk-2.0/evolution
/usr/share/menu/evolution
/usr/bin/evolution
/usr/lib/evolution
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/handlers/evolution
/usr/lib/python-support/python-gnome2-desktop/python2.5/gtk-2.0/evolution
/usr/lib/python-support/python-gnome2-desktop/python2.4/gtk-2.0/evolution
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0/evolution

repo · 12-03-2010, 06:56 AM

Try this from a terminal

Code:

rm -r ~/.evolution/
rm -r ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/
evolution --force-shutdown
killall gconfd-2

You can however change the settings uing

Code:

Edit -> Preferences and looking at the accounts on the "Mail Accounts" tab

Kind regards

rblampain · 12-04-2010, 12:24 AM

Thank you. Editing the file went normally even though there was no more file named "Evolution", so I followed your first option and that fixed the problem.

repo · 12-04-2010, 04:24 AM

Good to hear the problem is solved.
You can mark the thread solved using the thread tools.

Kind regards