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Bug 583293 - Be able to set Evolution's data directory
Be able to set Evolution's data directory
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 523038
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Shell
2.26.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Evolution Shell Maintainers Team
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-05-20 02:38 UTC by Rigoberto
Modified: 2009-05-20 03:21 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Rigoberto 2009-05-20 02:38:43 UTC 
My feature request is to be able to set (via for instance a command line parameter or an environment variable) Evolution's data directory. 

I need to constantly switch between different computers that have both
GNU/Linux and FAT formatted Win32 Operating Systems. If this feature is implemented Evolution will be able to read user files stored on a USB external hard drive. In this way I will be able quickly and easily switch between computers.
Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2009-05-20 03:21:41 UTC 
The way forward is to store Evolution data and cache files according to the XDG Base Directory Specification [1], whose defaults can be overridden by environment variables.

However this is already on file in Bugzilla, so closing this as a duplicate.

[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 523038 ***