Re: [Evolution] 1.4.6 to 1.5 Migration Experiance

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 08:35 -0400, Wise, Jeremey wrote:
> Just wanted to post my experiances in transition from stable 1.4.6 to
> 1.5. I had a lot of little issues with SuSe 9.0 and figured I would try
> jumping to 9.1 before I started complaining. Nothing major but things
> that make life with Linux less then elegant. 
I couldn't get my mouse to work at all on 9.0 so it wasn't just elegance for me :-/
> 2) Post install  it took me only a few minutes to find out how to import
> all my 1.4.6 mail (copy of my old hard drives /home/'username'/evolution
> direcotry)into 1.5. "evolution-1.5  --force-migrate". This imported all
> my mail but did not import my mail server settings and preferances. I
> remember their being a post about this but could not find it. I would
> recommend their be some kind of "migrationn how-to" posted. When 1.4.6
> to 2.x goes live. Maybe even a wizard from red-carpet?
Well we don't really have a 'migration' path, we only have an 'upgrade' path.  i.e. it will upgrade an existing install, but there is no export/import functionality at all.

If you were just upgrading you'd have a fully copy of ~/ which includes ~/.gconf where the settings are stored now.
> 3) The new interface is very nice. I would like the flexability to
> shrink the bottom left buttons (Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Tasks,
> Exchange) as I have a lot of mailbxes I need to see open and all the
> side space I can get is a help when I have to sort emails.
"me too".  I'm not sure why they are the full size toolbar button size but then it doesn't honour the toolbar options for layout (e.g. i use text only).

> 5) Their seem to still be some emails that show as having attachments
> that do do not alow me to 'detatch' them. The email size indicates their
> are attachments. I can forward it on an example if it is of use. I have
> not found a pattern to help give direction (pdf in the one case).
I've never seen anything like this, at least as i'm reading it.  File a bug and attach it there or forward it directly to me if you don't want the whole world seeing it.
> 5) As for stability (their were some postings about issues with it on
> 9.1) I have had no issues. It has worked flawlessly on the stability
> front.
It changes from week to week but in the last month or so its become very solid everywhere.
> Thanks to all those who spend their days and nights coding and fixing
> bugs. Your efforts are apreciated and are definatly worth it. I have had
> quite a few people looking at evolution as an Outlook replacement
> because of the quality of the product.
Cheers.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer