Re: [Evolution] Need help migrating

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Thomas Mittelstaedt pÃÅe v PÃ 10. 02. 2012 v 20:04 +0100:
> Am Freitag, den 10.02.2012, 19:53 +0100 schrieb Thomas Mittelstaedt:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 08.02.2012, 14:03 -0500 schrieb Joe Fitzmyer:
> > > I have a user in our company that recently was given a new machine running 
> > > Mint 12. Previously he had been using a distribution that used Evolution 
> > > 2.0.3.
> > >
> > > How can I migrate his data to the current Evolution 3.2.2? His older version 
> > > does not support the Backup option. The file structures are somewhat 
> > > different between the two versions.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any insight.
> >
> > Well, since it's such an old version, I'd suggest, your user should
> > start afresh with evolution 3.2.2 and import the old data using the
> > import-feature in the new version. I hope this is not too cumbersome.

It will be. The importer is quite limited when it comes to intelligent
behavior / avoiding to specify the files to import one by one.

> > Maybe, there exists a plug-in which can import more than one mbox-file
> > or more than one calendar file.
> >  
>
> Well, or you could just save the old data into a tar.gz archive and use
> the backup-restore feature of the new version.

2.0 did not have any Backup functionality (plus only data without
settings will not help), plus file locations have changed...

I would follow the steps described in
https://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#How_can_I_completely_backup_evolution.3F
and
https://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#How_can_I_transfer_all_my_Evolution_data_from_an_old_home_directory_to_a_new_home_directory.3F

Starting Evolution 2.32.x should (hopefully) automatically
transfer/convert the existing data to the new storage locations
described in
http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.2/data-storage.html

andre
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