Re: [Evolution] Evo 2.10.0 to Evo 2.12.0 on new drive?

[Andrew Greig <AndrewLGreig netscape net>]

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 18:38 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Wrong. That's what he did and it didn't work.
>
> See
> http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#How_can_I_transfer_all_my_Evolution_data_between_computers.2Fto_a_new_partition.2Fto_a_new_computer.3F
>
> poc
Thanks Patrick, 

that link is much more help than the Help File in Evo.

At last I can feel comfortable moving on.

Andrew Greig




> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 16:24 -0500, Ness, Todd wrote:
> > simply copy your .evolution directory and all of it's contents
> >
> > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 07:14 +1000, Andrew Greig wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I would like to know how to back up my current Evo so that I can install
> > > a new system and have everything "just work" ie signatures, email,
> > > contacts, folders.  Can I just delete the cache expecting it to be
> > > re-built? 
> > > I have installed Mandriva 2008 on another drive and copied ~/.evolution
> > > to a USB key with my ~/Documents  and ~/Pictures folders.  I copied the
> > > files into the new /home/andrew directory and then started Evolution.  I
> > > needed to enter all my email account details again and I am missing
> > > quite a bit of stuff. This was a dry run to see if I could get it right.
> > >
> > > Any ideas how I screwed up, and what I may do differently, please?
> > >
> > > Andrew Greig
> > > Community Distributor, OpenOffice.org 
> > > Melbourne, Australia
> > >
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