I messed up my installation beyond my point of no return and did a new install. I was able to rescue (almost) everything from the original install and copied it to my second HDD. Now I'm trying to find out how, or rather where to copy my original config files to get my apps back to their original states - copying from my old home directory into my new one. I've done so succesfully for Firefox and Thunderbird, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it for Evolution.

I've copied everything from ~/.evolution and ~/.gconf/apps/evolution from the old install into the new and changed ownership of all files. However Evolution still have me the registration screen at start up. I finally entered the info it requested, but it still doesn't appear to use what it has available from the aforementioned directories - I can see none of my ols mail, vfolders, contects etc.

Is there another file I'm missing? Where should I look to get evolution to work again as it did with all of my old mail?

Evo keeps all of it's mail in ~/.evolution/mail/, so if you restored ~/.evolution, it should be there. The configurations are in ~/.gnome2 and ~/.gnome2_private (I think), not ~/.gconf. The gconf directory just has application specific configurations, not user configurations.

Can't find anything in ~/.gnome2 or ~/gnome2_private related to evolution, but I did set it up with a fake address, so it should be registered somewhere...