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      type="topic" id="data-storage">

  <info>
    <desc>Where does Evolution store my data on the harddisk?</desc>
    
    <link type="guide" xref="index#common-other-problems" />

    <revision pkgversion="3.5.3" version="0.5" date="2012-06-09" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
      <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>    

  </info>

<title>Data storage locations</title>

<note style="tip">
<p>This is only interesting for advanced users who want to debug problems.</p>
</note>

<p>Evolution 3.6 and later stores its data according to the <link href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec">XDG Base Directory Specification</link>. By default this means:</p>

<terms>
<item>
<title>The user's data files</title>
<p><file>$HOME/.local/share/evolution</file></p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Various configuration and state files</title>
<p><file>$HOME/.config/evolution</file></p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Account settings</title>
<p><file>$HOME/.config/evolution/sources</file></p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Disposable data caches</title>
<p><file>$HOME/.cache/evolution</file></p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Configuration settings in GSettings</title>
<p><file>$HOME/.config/dconf</file></p>
</item>
</terms>

</page>
