Re: [Evolution] Evo 1.4.6 to Evo 2.2, SuSE to Ubuntu

["Kelly J. Morris" <kjmlists comcast net>]

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 13:39, guenther wrote:
> > Greetings - I have Evolution 1.4.6 on my desktop with SuSe Pro 9.0. My
> > laptop has Ubuntu 5.10 with Evolution 2.2. I would like to copy my
> > /home/kelly/evolution files with all my accounts, settings, etc. to the
> > laptop.
>
> Well, basically the answer is this post:
>   http://galactus.ximian.com/pipermail/evolution/2005-May/043454.html

Guenther - Thanks very much for your guidance. 
> > Can I just copy-and-paste /home/kelly/evolution from SuSE to Ubuntu? Do
> > I need to run setup on Evo 2.2 first, thereby creating
> > /home/kelly/evolution in Ubuntu, and then copy-and-replace?
>
> No, when moving/copying old settings and data to a new account, the best
> (as in easiest and fail proof) way is to NOT use the new account before
> copying the data.
>
>
> > I would appreciate any guidance.  TIA
>
> First of all some basics: Both 1.4.x as well as 2.x.y do store (most of)
> the settings using GConf, thus they are in ~/.gconf/apps/evolution. Evo
> 1.4.x still uses the old ~/evolution directory for data, which changed
> to the hidden directory ~/.evolution since 2.0.0.
>
> *If* there is *no* new Evo data which you want to keep on the target
> machine  you should remove those dirs first to cleanly import your old
> 1.4.x data. Namely that is:
>
> On the *target* machine remove the directories ~/evolution (if it
> exists), the new data dir ~/.evolution as well as the settings dir
> ~/.gconf/apps/evolution. Be sure to kill all backend tasks *first*
> before messing with those dirs: 'evolution --force-shutdown' will close
> the Evo backend tasks and 'gconftool-2 --shutdown' will shut down the
> GConf daemon. If you don't do this, the date still will be in memory!
> After removing those dirs, we got a clean Evo environment on the target
> machine.

Before I proceed, I want to make sure that I am going in the right
direction. In my target (i.e. Ubuntu) system, there is nothing in
/home/kelly besides Desktop and Documents, i.e. there is no
/home/kelly/evolution (since Evo hasn't been set up yet) but there is
also no gconf or .gconf, etc. (I do have the "show hidden and backup
files" checked). Does this mean that Ubuntu keeps these files elsewhere?
I've done a search and haven't found them yet. Or should I just proceed?

Thanks for your very clear and helpful response. Kelly 

> Then copy over the old data from the source machine to the target
> machine. You will need the Evo 1.4.x dirs, which are ~/evolution (not
> hidden) and ~/.gconf/apps/evolution. Again, be sure to kill all backend
> tasks on *both* machines before copying the data. Adjust the user and
> group of those files on the target machine, if necessary.
>
> When done, you can start Evo 2.x.y on the target machine for the first
> time again. It will identify an old 1.4.x environment and migrate all
> your data and settings. This may take a while...
>
>
> Be careful and always have backups handy of your data. Paranoia saves
> your day!
>
> ...guenther
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