Re: [Evolution] Data migration Evolution 2.24.5 to 3.4.3

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 09:52 -0600, Brian A Anderson wrote:
> How do I migrate from one machine running Evolution 2.24.5 to another
> machine running Evolution 3.4.3.

Maintenance of 2.24 by "upstream" Evolution developers basically ended
with the release of 2.28 in 2009.
Changes that have happened in the meantime:
With 2.32, Evolution started to store its data and preferences according
to the XDG Base Directory Specification.
Evolution 3.0 converted the default format from mbox to maildir.
Evolution 3.4 uses GSettings/dconf instead of gconf for storing
preferences.

> I tried backup on old machine and restore on new machine.
> No go.  It appears that the data is totally different in organization.

In case you used the "Backup/Restore" functionality of Evolution: It's
very likely untested for such a big change in version numbers.

My vague recommendation would be to install 3.0 on a machine and let
Evolution pick up your data and settings to convert them, and then do
the same again on a 3.4 machine.

andre
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