Re: [Evolution] Migration problems

[Ross Boylan <ross biostat ucsf edu>]

Thank you for the info.  I found that simply running 
evolution --force-shutdown
and restarting was enough to get my address book back.

Curiously, the only thing that didn't make the transition was the
calendar and task-related info.  I didn't have much there, so it's not a
big deal.

I have a couple of lingering concerns.  I also noticed that
~/.gconf/apps/evolution/shell/default_folders/%gconf.xml includes
entries like
<entry name="mail_path" mtime="1060730873" muser="ross"
type="string"><stringvalue>evolution:/local/Inbox</stringvalue></entry><entry name="mail_uri" 
mtime="1060730873" muser="ross" 
type="string"><stringvalue>file:///export/home/ross/evolution/local/Inbox</stringvalue></entry>

The "file:///export/home..." looks a little suspicious, since my old
machine, but not my new one, had a directory /export/home.  Is the
reference to /export to an actual path, or is it an internal magic word
for evolution?

Also, while poking around in .gconfd/saved_state I found a bunch of
entries like
ADD 3858759682 "def" "/apps/evolution/general/category_master_list"
"IOR: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"

They look as if they are saving state too, but how to manipulate or read
them is not clear.  Should I be concerned about them?

Also, I forgot to mention in my earlier post that I was going from 64
bit SPARC to 32 bit Athlon, so it seemed likely that if binary
compatibility was an issue I would run into it (but maybe evo runs in 32
bit mode on Solaris, and I don't know if there are endian differences).

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 02:49, guenther wrote:
> > 1) Mail hosts:
> > The configuration included an IMAP server, which was remote for the
> > SunOS system but was running on the Linux system.  I would have
> > thought it would just work, since the system name was valid from
> > either (I was reprompted for the password, but I gather that's
> > expected).  I suspected their might be some security issues with the
> > IMAP server, and changed the name to localhost.  This worked better.
> >
> > After clearing away the evolution directory and restarting, the IMAP
> > folders were still there.  So apparently it's not kept under
> > evolution/ (or at least isn't there under 1.4).  Where is that
> > information?
>
> Since Evolution 1.3.x most of the configuration is stored using GConf
> instead of the old ~/evolution/config.xmldb file. See the directory
> ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ for your settings, or use gconf-editor.
>
> AFAIK you simply can delete this directory, to start from scratch. Force
> Evolution to completely shutdown by running
> $ evolution --force-shutdown
>
>
> > 2) Contacts:
> > Some members of this list indicated that the address book was binary,
> > and so might not travel.  To my surprise, my contacts were preserved
> > after the first startup.  (Or does the "address book" refer to
> > something other than the contacts folder?).
>
> Yes, ~/evolution/local/Contacts/ is the default Address Book directory.
>
>
> > After I moved the evolution directory, the contacts were empty except
> > for Ximian.  That was not surprising.
> >
> > However, when I tried moving back my original evolution directory, the
> > contacts remained empty.  Where did they go?
>
> Again, close Evolution and run 'evolution --force-shutdown' before
> copying / overriding the contacts.
>
> ...guenther
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