Re: [Evolution] moving EVO details to new workstation

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

Quoting Dan Saint-Andre <saint grillongroup org>
> Folks,
>     I have bought a new laptop ... ta-da! I have new linux and EVO
> installed and running. (That is how I'm writing this.)
>     I have an old laptop.  I made a tar-ball of $HOME/..., moved it to
> the new workstation, and unpacked the tar-ball as  $HOME/oldeHOME/...
> From there I can pick and choose the files and folders I want and
> discard the rest where that makes sense.
>     I want to make my olde EVO files and folders and messages available
> to my new EVO.
> Can I click-click in the new EVO and point to the folders of my restored
> tar-ball?
> Do I need to copy files around first?  Clearly, my emphasis is messages
> and contacts
> over configuration and settings.
> ** The new edition is v3.2.2 under Linux Mint-12 with Cinnamon.
>      [From the help file for the running edition of EVO...]
>      If you run Evolution 2.32.0 or later, data will be stored according
> to the
>      XDG Base Directory Specification. By default this means:

Forget it, performing this kind of surgery is a path to fail.

Use the Evolution backup feature on your old laptop, move that file to  
your new laptop, and use the Evolution restore feature.  I would  
certainly try that first.

Or just restore your complete home directory in-place;  but *before*  
you log into the laptop.  Then any auto-upgrades should kick in.

Also note that you can only do the auto-upgrade jump for n number of  
versions forward.

> ** The olde edition was v2.28.3 under Linux Ubuntu with Gnome 2x.