Hi Chris, On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 22:27 -0500, cdc wrote: > My wife is using an old machine running Suse 9.1 (no longer updated) > with Evolution 1.4. I'd like to move her to a machine runnung the > latest Ubuntu which has Evolution 2.6. I did a test run, and 2.6 > didn't seem to recognize any of the data (mail or settings) from 1.4.
How did that test run look like? What did you copy to which location?
What to do:
Make sure you haven't any "new" Evolution data (e.g. emails that are
only on the new computer) on the new computer/new partition yet.
First of all, shut down Evolution and its background processes
(Evolution Data Server, Evolution Alarm Notify) on the new computer
completly by using
evolution --force-shutdown
and on the old computer by running
killev
Then copy the contents of
~/evolution/
~/.gnome2_private/Evolution (if that one exists, i don't
remember 1.4 that good)
~/.camel_certs
Then dump your Evolution settings stored on the old computer by running
gconftool-2 --dump /apps/evolution > some-file.xml
where
some-file.xml
is the name of the file the information is written to.
On the new computer, make sure you are not running gconf - by running
ps ax | grep gconf
for example; you normally have to leave gnome for that and then run
gconftool-2 --shutdown
Then import those settings in that file by running
gconftool-2 --load some-file.xml
and log in to gnome again.
then start evolution - it should automatically migrate the old data in
~/evolution
to the new structure in
~/.evolution
anybody on this list please correct me if i remember something wrong.
thanks. :-)
cheers,
andre
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