On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 13:09 -0800, Jeff Trefftzs wrote:
I still haven't mamaged to completely recover my old Evo 1.2 address book, etc. after a move from RH 9 to FC 3. I did back everything up, but it wasn't simply a matter of starting evo in my old home directory, since I also reformatted my main hard drive, getting rid of a big windows partition that I never used. So, after installing FC 3 I went to start Evo 2.0.2 thinking that it would let me import back my old settings from wherever I had them backed up. Oops. Not so. Later correspondence on this list made me think that if I could simply (a) reinstall the old Evo 1.2 directory hierarchy in my home directory ($HOME/evolution/...) and then restart Evo 2.0.2 things might Just Work (TM). But no luck. I obviously didn't find everything I needed to remove to make Evolution think this was the first time. So -- should I back up my mbox files again and simply remove and reinstall Evo 2.0.2? Will that take care of all the various places that have a record of evolution being installed? And, will that let a new install of Evo find my old 1.2 hierarchy and automatically import it?
hi jeff, i'll try to answer this, but be aware to backup everything before doing this... read it twice. "do not follow the instructions below blindly. paranoia safes your day." (quoting guenther here :-) first of all there is a migration faq by guenther at http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2004-September/039343.html. for your interest. normally, starting evo2.0 should automatically import all 1.4 data from ~/evolution to the new structure in "~/.evolution". so run "evolution --force-shutdown" to also shut down the evolution backend. put your old data into "~/evolution", your new 2.0 data is saved in "~/.evolution". since evolution1.4, evolution stores account settings in gconf, namely in "~/.gconf/apps/evolution". i assume you have already set up your mail accounts in 2.0. i'd consider to also backup your gconf settings! *i* would try to set the gconf key "/apps/evolution/version" back to "1.4" by using gconf-editor, but i am **NOT** sure if this works (and would be pleased on comments by others, perhaps wait a few days for comments by other people ;-), since "1.2" would not make sense since it did not use gconf to store its settings, i think. at least retrieved mails, added contacts, etc. will be *overwritten* if you just migrate. make sure you have backups so you are able to concatenate your latest and overwritten 2.0 data to the old and imported 1.2 data. hmmm... hope this does not make it even worse, good luck, andre -- mailto:ak-47 gmx net | failed! http://www.iomc.de
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