Re: [Evolution] Moving from evolution to evolution

[dbrenner <dbrenner dbrenner com>]

On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 08:19 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> I'm still a little confused as to why so many users seem to feel the
> need to backup and restore their personal data just to upgrade their
> operating system in place.  Backing up of course is a prudent safety
> measure, but if the upgrade goes smoothly there should be no need to
> restore the backup.
>
> Are there actually distro installers that don't allow you to upgrade
> without nuking your home directory, or do some installers not make
> that
> option clear enough, or am I just misunderstanding the problem?

Matthew,
I am a Fedora user. Some people, including me, choose to do a fresh
install instead of an upgrade in place. I do this every 2 or 3 releases
just to clean out the old release remnants that invariably get left on
the system, including dot directories in my home directory. Since I
follow this list I see the posts of problems and know to use the
Evolution backup/import.

Thanks to everybody who contributes to the Evolution project.
Dan
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