Re: [Evolution] Contacts & Siganutre 1.4.x->2.3.6

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Is this from a backup of evolution data, or is it from an upgraded
system which your *complete* home directory intact (not just
~/evolution).

Evolution will automatically upgrade old data, but only if it is intact.

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 09:19 +0300, Kimmo Elo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we are encountering severe Problems by importing old contacts and
> signature from 1.4.x to 2.3.6. Evo does not recognize the old
> installation and does not import the old settings as it was supposed to
> do. We have succeeded in importing old mails, but contacts and
> sigantures will not do.
>
> Signatures:
> We simply copied to old signature from ~/evolution... into
> ~/.evolution/signature, but we just cannot see the signatures in
> Edit->Preferences->Editor preferences-Signatures. I know we could do it
> by cut-and-paste, but there are over 20 signatures, so this is not an
> option! All ideas are welcome!
>
> Contacts:
> The contacts are not imported at all. AFAIK, the addressbook format has
> been changed in 2.x. Is there any external applications able to convert
> the old 1.4.x addressbook into the new 2.x format - or e.g. a vcard or
> csv file? 
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Kind regards,
> Kimmo
>
>
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