[Evolution] {Spam?} Re: Re: Need help migrating

[Rick Bragg <rbragg gmnet net>]

On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 20:45 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> 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

I'm having a similar problem.  Is there a way to import contact data
into 3.2.2?  It seems that the import tool only works for mail and
calendars.
Rick