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

[Andy Allen <andy allen virgin net>]

Hi Ritesh,
Many thanks for your helpful reply - I've added a few comments below.

On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 18:26, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
> 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 ?
No, I don't think this did happen the first time I ran Evolution on the
new system.
> > 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)
Is this where you choose 'Session' on the login panel and select
Failsafe Terminal?
>  , and re-run evolution
Do I do this on the command line by typing $ evolution or something?
>       $ 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" .
Sorry to be a bit unclear about running stuff from the command line but
I'm still relatively new to linux!
> > 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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