Re: [Evolution] Migrating from Evolution 1.4.5 (Red Hat) to Evolution 1.3.3 (FreeBSD)

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 21:57, Barry Skidmore wrote:
> Since Red Hat is abandoning the hobbyist market, I am looking at other
> platforms and am thinking about migrating to FreeBSD.  On a test
> machine, I have installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, X, GNOME 2.2, and the
> FreeBSD port of Evolution (1.3.3).
>
> I copied the 'Evolution' folder from my Red Hat system to the FreeBSD
> machine, and was pleased that all my Calendar events, Contacts, and
> local folders show up.  However, the major problem I am having is that
> the messages stored within the folders (in mbox format) do _not_show up,
> even though I can open the mbox file with a text editor and see that the
> messages are there.

Ugh. FreeBSD shouldn't be shipping 1.3.3. That's not a stable release.

Anyway, if you're downgrading, there might be file format
incompatibilities that don't get dealt with. Try removing all of the
".ev-summary" files from ~/evolution

-- Dan