Re: [Evolution] Upgrade without losing mail: is there a HOWTO?

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 20:19 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> hi lee,
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 11.01.2006, 14:09 -0500 schrieb Lee Revell:
> > But the .gconf directory only stores preferences that can easily be
> > restored.
>
> then you never had the wonderful pleasure to help somebody restoring
> access to his address books which he had lost by not backing up his
> gconf data. expect at least half an hour on irc for it.
>
> > Besides this should just work, right?  It would be a grave bug if an
> > upgrade destroyed any of this data.
>
> yes, it should work(TM). my windows xp box also crashes only randomly.
>
> andre ;-)

Heh, but this is open source so we can find the bugs and fix them.

I'm not saying it's guaranteed to work for you, just that I've upgraded
and downgraded many times, never backed up any .gconf data, and never
had a problem.

Lee