Comment 7 for bug 120392

There is a "backup settings" and a "restore settings" in the menu, you can use them instead of copying datas by hand. When you copy the .evolution directory you also have to copy the gconf configuration. If you break your configuration because you don't know what you are doing and don't copy everything you need that's not a software bug. Anyway your bug is different of the one reported here which happens to the submitter without copying any configuration. You can open an another bug about your issues if you want though