Re: [Evolution] Data migration Evolution 2.24.5 to 3.4.3

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

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.

You back it up from within Evolution, then restore it in the new
version.  See

 http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.4/backup-restore.html.en

> Please note that the older machine (running 2.24.5) is dying a slow
> hardware death.
>
> I tried backup on old machine and restore on new machine.
> No go.  It appears that the data is totally different in organization.

How did you backup the data?

And yes the file locations are different, but Evolution is intelligent
enough to migrate data if it detects data in the old locations.

P.