[Evolution] fedora 16 -> 18 without doing evolution backup - LOST all evolution stuff

[Ray Holme <rayholme yahoo com>]

I have never backed up evolution before during an upgrade and did not this time.

Things worked for fedora 8 -> 12 and from 12 -> 16. BUT not for 16 -> 18

It is over an 8 hour project to rebuild 16, do a evolution backup, rebuild 18 and restore.

I am hoping there is something I can do to get over this hurdle.

Two interesting side lights

   I upgraded to 18 to solve an evolution bug (it died for one mail group of users)

   Since evolution is NOT configured, clicking on the mail selection for this in a firefox window hung the whole machine windowing system.

   I had to hand copy the address to here to use.

And NO this is not my primary mailing place - evolution is but I can't get there now or I will lose everything I had. (folders, config ....)

I have hand restored all the DOT files to where they were - all to no avail. When evolution comes up, it wants me to configure everything again.

I hope someone knows how to fix this.