Re: [Fwd: Re: [Evolution] Evolution, Upgrade from 1.4 to 2.0.0 on Mandrake]

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > > Has anybody been able to upgrade Evo 1.4 to 2.0 on a Mandrake distro?
> >
> > Yes I upgraded from Mandrake 10.0 to 10.1 (Community) and the transition
> > was automated.
> >
> > > I was upgrading and at the same time moving to a new hard drive.
> > > I installed MDK 10.1, deleted the new .evolution directory and copied
> > > the old evolution directory from my old HD and restarted evo 2
> >
> > You should have let Mandrake do the job, the script is included in the
> > RPM. And it seems that somehow Evo2 stores data elsewhere than
> > ~.evolution (or ~evolution)

It uses GConf for storing Account informations and Settings. But all the
real data actually is stored in your ~/.evolution directory.


> > > I am mostly interested in moving the contacts from 1.4 to 2.0.
> > > I can do the e-mail manually and I have been using imap for a while so
> > > all the now e-mail are on the server anyway.
> > > Again, how to move the contacts from 1.4 to 2.0?
> >
> > You can launch Evo1.4, select all your contacts and choose "save as
> > vcf". Then you can import the vcf file in Evo2.
>
> This (save as vcf) worked great. 

Yay! for processing backlogged mails in chronological order -- of
threads...

Ignore my previous post to this thread (yeah, the other part of it,
which threads till being interrupted) then. Glad you got the data back
you need anyway. :)

...guenther


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