Re: [Evolution] Problems upgrading to evo 1.5 in Debian

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

you can try:

 evolution-1.5 --force-migrate

note that it will DELETE everything in ~/.evolution first.

Although someone on irc said that didn't work either.

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 11:18 +0200, Ignacio Más Ivars wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I have been following the list for some months now and I decided to give
> a try to evolution 1.5 in my Debian system. After upgrading Gnome and
> GTK to the experimental packages and downloading evolution 1.5, I
> shutdown my old evo 1.4 and run the new one, which started importing my
> old data. The import crashed when importing the contact list, for unkown
> reasons, so I decided to try to run it again. It seemed like evo 1.5
> decided that it had finished importing everything so I found myself
> without the data in my calendar, contact lists and tasks. Being an
> engineer (sic.) I took the easy approach and after making a backup copy
> of both evolution and .evolution directories, just in case, I erased the
> .evolution dir and started evo1.5, hoping that it would understand that
> it had to re-import everything... Much to my surprise, evo1.5 started
> with all the previous state, the mail accounts configured and the
> calendar empty (not counting the ximian entry, which is nice, but not so
> useful to me now... ). I guess that all the configuration is stored in
> some hidden obscure gconf file somewhere, but I would really like to
> give a try to evo1.5. So, with the following system status:
>
> - A backup copy of my ~/evolution dir, with all the info I want to keep
> - A backup copy of ~/.evolution with what I guess is the evo1.5 info
> - Evo1.4 working fine just with the ~/evolution dir in place and without
> the ~/.evolution dir...
> - All the gnome and gtk packages upgraded to experimental (I think so,
> at least!)
>
> ... could a kind soul please tell me how to start evo1.5 so that it
> imports properly all my data and mails?
>
> Thanks for the help!
> /Nacho
>
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