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

[melissad <melissad speakeasy net>]

Thanks, everyone.  I will back up both and give it a whirl, let you know 
how it comes out.

melissa


Lee Revell wrote:
> 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
>
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