Re: [Evolution] shifting Evolution from one computer to another

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

	Hello,
I guess your /media/IOMEGA either doesn't support so long file names, or
has troubles with the name itself, like with ':' character in the name.
Try to zip or tar-gz your $HOME/.evolution (and those other gconf
directories) into one package and move this package on the IOMEGA
instead.
	Bye,
	Milan


On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 18:27 -0500, Dipankar Basu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am using Ubuntu 7.10 and am having problems shifting Evolution from
> one computer to another. I am following the procedure given in the
> FAQs: 
> http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#How_can_I_transfer_all_my_Evolution_data_between_computers.2Fto_a_new_partition.2Fto_a_new_computer.3F
> 
> 
> I first did: "evolution --force-shutdown" and got this:
> 
> Shutting down evolution-exchange-storage (Evolution Calendar Exchange
> backend / Evolution Addressbook Exchange backend)
> Shutting down evolution-data-server-1.12 (Evolution Calendar file and
> webcal backend / Evolution Addressbook file backend) 
> Shutting down evolution-alarm-notify (Evolution Calendar alarm
> notification service)
> 
> 
> Now, when I try to copy the contents from the folder
> $HOME/.evolution/ 
> 
>  sudo cp -r $HOME/.evolution/ /media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/ 
> 
> I get the following error messages:
> 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_R': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Sent': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Drafts': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_Conference': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Outbox': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_Econ201': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#._23evolution_Trash': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#._23evolution_Junk': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_Fall06': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_Referee': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_Econ520': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_Econ_20444': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_Submissions': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_Econ520_SU07': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-vfolder:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_vfolder#Account_20Search': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_Job_20Market': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_Econ520_AU07': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local_Inbox': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local_Inbox_Job_20Market': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local_Sent': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local_Inbox_Conference': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local_Inbox_Econ520_AU07': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local_Inbox_Econ520': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local_Inbox_Econ520_WI08': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/config/et-expanded-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local_Inbox_Submissions': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/views/custom_view-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_Econ_20444.xml': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/views/current_view-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_Fall06.xml': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/views/custom_view-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_Fall06.xml': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/views/current_view-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_Econ520_AU07.xml': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/views/current_view-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_Econ_20444.xml': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/views/current_view-vfolder:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_vfolder#Account_20Search.xml': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/views/custom_view-vfolder:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_vfolder#Account_20Search.xml': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/views/custom_view-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local#Inbox_Econ520_AU07.xml': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/views/current_view-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local_Inbox_Econ520_WI08.xml': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/mail/views/custom_view-mbox:_home_basu15_.evolution_mail_local_Inbox_Econ520_WI08.xml': Invalid argument 
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/addressbook/views/current_view-file:___home_basu15_.evolution_addressbook_local_system.xml': Invalid argument
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/media/IOMEGA/EVOLUTION/.evolution/addressbook/views/custom_view-file:___home_basu15_.evolution_addressbook_local_system.xml': Invalid argument 
> 
> 
> What is going wrong?
> 
> Dipankar
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