hi neil, Am Dienstag, den 12.10.2004, 13:58 -0400 schrieb Neil B. Cohen:
I've been using Fedora Core 1 and 2 for some time now, along with Evolution 1.4. This afternoon, I downloaded and installed Fedora Core 3. I have copied my old email directory (/home/nbc/evolution) so I have my old local mail folders and addressbook information. Questions: 1) I'm using an IMAP server, but I had 10 or 15 local mail folders - how do I import these into Evolution 2.x? Do I have to import each mbox one at a time? 2) How do I import my address book into the Contacts section?
for your interest: evolution <=1.4.x used to use the directory "~/evolution". "~/.evolution" is the directory which is used by evolution 1.5.x/2.0.x to store its data. both your questions should be solved by forcing evolution to explicitly import all data by starting it with "evolution --force-migrate". evolution should recognize the old 1.4 data in the folder "~/evolution" and should convert it to "~/.evolution". since i assume that you have already used 2.0.x, evolution should *normally* ask you questions since some files already exist (but be careful to not overwrite your new email files with the old ones by fault!). therefore it's a bit risky and i'd strongly consider to backup everything before doing this, e.g. by shutting down evolution properly by "evolution --force-shutdown" and then .tar.gz'ing both the 2.0.x directory (~/.evolution) and ~/.gconf/apps/evolution if you also want your settings. make sure to also shutdown gconf (gconftool-2 --shutdown) before restoring the files otherwise it may not pick them up properly. take a look into the archives for an exact description of it... hope this helps a little bit, good luck, andre -- mailto:ak-47 gmx net | failed! http://www.iomc.de
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