Re: [Evolution] Data migration Evolution 2.24.5 to 3.4.3

[Brian A Anderson <BrianAAnderson q com>]

This sounds a bit like I have a mission impossible.
Looks like Evolution 3.0 does the conversion.
I don't have 3.0.

If I follow what you said below,  Does this mean that I have to convert
2.24.5 data to 2.32 data and then to 3.4 or is it just one conversion?
Is there a utility that someone has that might do this job?

Again thanks in advance for any help.
Brian.


On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 18:23 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> 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