On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 21:18 +1000, Christopher M Bailey wrote:
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 11:44 +0200, Antonio M wrote:
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evolution-3.2.3-3 on the old computer with Fedora 16 Evolution 3.4.1 is running on Fedora 17Hang on, have I got this right? You're running BETA software (Fedora 16 is the latest stable release), did not use the recommended method for transferring data and have cleansed the original system before checking to see if your backups are usable? I'm confident the folks here will be able to help you out, if it is possible. However I think that the lesson to be learnt here is to plain your migrations, especially when beta code is involved.
Actually the real problem is with whoever thought a separate backup and restore tool for an email application was a good idea. For more than 20 years a simple backup of all the files in your home directory has been enough to get everything restored. Yet someone, somewhere decided to change that and seems to expect that every user of evolution has looked for a backup option (in the email client? what?). Even when things did happen, such as a change from mbox to maildir, there was a simple tool to run that would do the conversion. Where is that tool for Evolution? And no, installing a complete copy of the older Evolution and all its support libraries (and their libraries, etc.) is not a simple tool. -- Knowledge Is Power Power Corrupts Study Hard Be Evil
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