Re: [Evolution] Importing mail & settings from previous version of Evolution

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

Hello,

  my bad, for late reply.

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 18:02 +0100, Andy Allen wrote:
> Hi Pete,
> Thanks for the info - I have now managed to get the importing/migrating
> process to run (by resetting the gconf keys in terminal first), but it
> failed near the end and now Evolution won't run at all! As you say, you
> only get one chance, because I tried importing some files into
> .evolution/mail/config initially, which I think has caused the problem -
> so I'm probably going to have to reinstall Evolution - but how do I do
> that?!!
re-install should not make a difference . Backup your mail folder -
".evolution", and "evolution" both .

if ".evolution" folder exists , Reset the configuration and blow up
"evolution" folder . Next, reset gconf key for evolution

        gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/evolution 

Hopefully this should have evolution migration wizard going .

> Andy
>
> On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 18:27, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > Andy Allen wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Mark,
> > > Thanks for your response - no, I haven't tried exporting to another
> > > email program as an intermediary, but I'm sure I should be able to
> > > export/import between two versions of Evolution. I've tried using the
> > > Import Assistant in Evolution 2.0.2 but it says "No settings ....found".
> > > I don't want to have to 'reinvent the wheel' by using all sorts of
> > > command line stuff - I just need some clear instruction as to how to set
> > > up the two versions of Evolution so that the Import Assistant will work!
> > >
> > >  
> >
> > Between Evo 1 and Evo 2 there was a lot of changes in the formats - 
> > specifically
> > it changed from using the '~/evolution' directory to store everything in 
> > to using
> > the '~/.evolution' directory.  If '~/.evolution' exists, it won't 
> > import.  Similarly make
> > sure that '~/evolution directory exists.  You only get one chance to do 
> > the imports
> > because the initial import sets lots of gconf keys - evo assumes that 
> > the import
> > has been done if any of these keys exist.
> >
> > There used to be a program around from Ximian (when evo was a Ximian 
> > program)
> > to reset all the import things - but that was a long time ago, so I 
> > don't know if you
> > will be able to find it now.
> >
> > Pete
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