Re: [Evolution] migration/alexion

[bg <bg fdi us>]

Art Alexion wrote:

> Lastly, when you say "upgrade", are you seriously considering trying to install
> a relatively new Debian based distro on top of a very old rpm based distro?

bg:

Not at all - I used the word in the generic, not the technical sense.
I figure to install Ubuntu separately, first backing up my
entire home directory to a tar file, and having pulled all the
accumulated data files from the old FC2, scrub it.

Art Alexion wrote:

> If you just mean that you are going to replace the system and are planning routes
> for data migration, then I would not seriously expect a smooth path.

bg:

I never figured it would be smooth. That's why I'm seeking pointers.

> If you can, upload important mail to an imap server and retrieve it 
> from there on your installation.  I'd go the csv route for contacts.

bg:

Sounds like some good strategies. A question, though; in looking through
all the operating elements of my 1.4 Evo, I don't see that it offers
any "export" choices - what do I do to get the Contacts saved as a .csv
file? Would that be a command line sequence outside of Evo?

Thanks,

Brewster

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