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

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 10:55 +0100, 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".
Evolution should open up import wizard on first-run, to import
settings/data from older evolution . Did this happen ?

> 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!

Reset gnome settings from a virtual console ( make sure, you have not
logged into gui) , and re-run evolution

        $ mkdir gnome_old
        $ mv .gconf* .gnome* gnome_old

Log back into gui, and run evolution . This should start up evolution's
import wizard assuming "evolution" directory has not yet been
moved/removed to ".evolution";

Final option, importing mailbox individually or try copying the folder
from older "evolution" to ".evolution" .



> Andy
>
> On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 23:47, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> > On 25 May 2007 23:09:43 +0100, Andy Allen <andy allen virgin net> wrote:
> > > Hi Ritesh,
> > > Thanks for the link to the article which I've read with interest.
> > > Trouble is I think the difference between Evolution 1.2.2 and 2.0.2 is
> > > too great and there doesn't seem to be an easy way of migrating from the
> > > latter to the former. I've submitted a question to the 'experts' at
I doubt RHL/CentOS in query will be top of the priority, as these people
receive tons of query on RHEL itself. 

> > > RedHat, but until I find a solution I'm stuck in a 'time warp' with
> > > 1.2.2!
my bad. this for copying evolution setting from one system to another,
and not migration .

> > >
> >
> > Have you tried exporting your 1.2.2 email to another email program as
> > an intermediary?

CentOS3 ( evolution 1.4x , i believe ) to CentOS4 ( evolutiopn 2.0.2 )
migration is know to work in majority of cases .;

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