Where Does Evince Store Settings and History?
Evince data folders on Linux with document history, annotations and print settings.
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Evince remembers per-document page positions, annotations and print settings in its data folders, with app preferences in dconf rather than files. PDFs stay where you opened them and are never imported.
Losing the data folders resets reading positions across the library. Copy both trees and every document reopens exactly where you left it.
Where Evince stores this, by platform
~/.local/share/evince
Holds document history, metadata and annotation storage. App preferences live in dconf under org.gnome.Evince. Copy the data folder plus a dconf dump of the Evince subtree to migrate everything.
Frequently asked questions
Evince forgot my page positions. Why?
The history in the folder above went missing, often after a home migration without dotfiles. Restore it from backup to recover positions.
Where are Evince annotations?
Stored per document in the data tree above for local files. Export annotated PDFs explicitly to bake notes into the file.
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