Re: [Evolution] Evo mail: explanation of old and new file system

["carpetnailz researchintegration org" <carpetnailz researchintegration org>]

On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 22:14 +0800, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 09:38 -0400, carpetnailz researchintegration org
> wrote:
> > -When I copied the .evolution folder, it did not have any of my emails
> > or calendar entries from the two weeks I was trying to use Ubuntu 11.04.
> > Apparently with Ubuntu 11.04 Evolution had started to use the new
> > location, but there was no indication of this anywhere. 
>
> There is a migration dialog when you start it for the first time after
> upgrading (and you are offered to import a backup file at the first
> run).
I don't remember such a dialog, but that was 10 months ago. Does the
migration dialog happen on a new install also (moving to a new
computer)? At any rate, I think the problem started when I wiped the
Ubuntu 11.04 installation and went to the Fedora 15. 

> > It's all well and good to say, "There isn't in the user docs because
> > it's nothing that a user should need to care about. It should be all
> > automatically."  But the user does need to care about it since he has to
> > fix the problem. And he has to understand what's happening.
>
> If the user needlessly shot him/herself in the foot by tinkering with
> hidden folders (hidden. for a reason.) instead of using Evolution's
> Backup/Restore functionality, then user documentation won't stop him/her
> either. A support channel (like this mailing list) is more helpful for
> such specific situations.
At any rate, I did not "needlessly shoot myself in the foot." Because of
the glitches that the "automatic" process created, I had to start
tinkering with the hidden files when I didn't get any relevant help from
the mailing list. There wasn't at any point any indication of a need to
use the Evo Backup/Restore function because I was copying my whole home
directory, hidden files and all, to the new computer. There was no
reason to think that moving Evo required any special process. Why the
secretiveness? I thought Gnu/Linux was supposed to be about openness.
Shouldn't this include openness for the end user as well as for the geek
insiders? If there had been even a couple of paragraphs in the help
documentation explaining the change, not only of location but also of
file type, I could have dealt with my migration problems more
effectively.

> andre

So what's the answer to my question about what I do now? I've asked that
question twice and only gotten answers to the side issues.