On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 14:35, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > At 03:20 PM 12/27/2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > >Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > > > As for why evolution puts its files in hidden directories > > > is because that is pretty much the gnome way and evolution > > > is very much a gnome application. > > > >Yep. > > > >And it's pretty much the "UNIX way" in general. You almost > >_always_ put user files in the user's home directory. > > But HIDDEN??? There's not much magic about unix hidden files. If you use ls -a you see them. Type the real name and you access them. It's just a convention to keep application data from cluttering the view of your files. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com