I installed new distro of 17.2 on an empty 1/3 of my IHDD. First thing I found was that built-in screenshot wouldn't right-click paste to desktop (paste grayed out). Later found file in buffer somewhere but not easy to paste directly to Files. Second, copied Evolution back-up from old OS on 1st 1/3 of my IHDD but not yet successful in getting gmail to work. Then I made another profile and started Evolution as new app and gmail worked. Third, made another profile, all with Admin rights but only the first can access the 2nd 1/3 of my IHDD which I use for a common storage area for all. Looking for simple solutions since I'm not a proficient user of underlying commands below Zorin level. Help?
Restoring the Evolution configurations from back up likely conflicted authentication tokens.
On your affected user account, these configurations are stored in
~/.config/evolution/~/.cache/evolution/~/.local/share/evolution/
Resetting these to default may help resolve that issue. You can do that by moving each of the above folders into a new different location (to back them up) and then restarting Evolution so that it generates fresh configurations (Like your new user account did).
Gmail may be failing to authenticate because of saved OAuth tokens. You can try removing the Evolution credentials stored in GNOME Keyring (usingSeahorseapp) and then re-authenticate Gmail.
Did you create the back ups using Evolution's its built-in backup feature (File > Backup Evolution Data)?
If the abvoe works to get Gmail working again, you can restore your emails, etc.
Evolution says that it stores your data for email in:
Emails & Folders: ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/
Contacts: ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/
Calendars: ~/.local/share/evolution/calendar/
Tasks & Memos: ~/.local/share/evolution/memos/
If you used the Evolution backup feature, you should have a tar.gz compressed file that you can extract and then see the above backed-up contents (The originals).
Close Evolution completely. (evolution --force-shutdown if needed)
Copy only the mail/ folder from the backup into the fresh ~/.local/share/evolution/ directory.
If any of the above works, hopefully it will make the rest of your questions no longer necessary.
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Thanks for your detailed advice. What I did was delete each account and re-add as new using the Edit Account menu. I liked how Zorin automatically selected settings for me and prompted me to login into gmail for each account and give permissions. [The difference ended up that Receive in the former OS was pop and is now imat(x)]. Now my accounts work errorlessly. However one unintended consequence is that I now have my original four accounts "On This Computer" and the four gmail accounts underneath. [My former OS had the gmail account folders integrated into the "On This Computer" folders]. I guess I can live with this and eventually clean up the original four accounts folders.
I still have not found a way of getting "Screenshot" pinned to the task bar like I had in my former OS; that one was "GNOME Screenshot" which did not come up in "Software" search. I know that I can simply press F12 but I liked have it on the task bar.
TKS AGAIN! AL
Zorin OS 17 switched to defaulting to Wayland and brought Gnome 43 (gnome 4+ rather than Gnome 3+)
Gnome integrated the Screenshot tool into the Gnome Shell - due to Gnome Screenshot not working properly with Wayland. So now, rather than being a fully functional modular application, it is a trimmed down shell integrated version.