[Evolution] Moving Data from 2.0.4 to 2.2.2

Ron Johnson ron.l.johnson at cox.net
Sat Jul 2 16:02:38 EDT 2005


On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 14:20 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 10:07 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > 1. the reason you need to shut it down is because gconfd stores the
> > settings in memory and it is impossible to make sure that all settings
> > have been synced to disk without shutting it down first.
> > 
> > As far as the destination machine goes, it needs to have gconfd shut
> > down because it will have any settings it knows about in memory and if
> > you replace the settings files while it is running, it won't recognise
> > that they have changed underneath it which may cause you much grief.
> 
> That's terrible.  So if my system crashes and burns, any gconf changes
> are lost?
> 
> Any reason it can't sync to disk once in a while?

Valid point.  However, how often do you make such changes?

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