On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 00:26, Andrew Tunney wrote: > Given that I have just re-installed Linux, thought I would share some > thoughts with the Evolution community & see if anyone can direct me to > the relative tools that may do the job a bit better than my efforts > achieved. > > 1) After backing up Evolution, I had to import all of the contacts that > I had exported to .vcf individually. This is a pain with a capital P, > surely there must be a method to import them all in one hit instead of > having to import one by one ? > > 2) There must be a better way to export / import data from a backed up > Evolution rather than take all the folders & then import them again one > by one ? > > This is apparently achievable in Netscape/Mozilla mail with no problems, > also Eudora, Outlook & several others on the M$ platform (as much as I > hate to admit it). > > I no programmer but surely someone in the Evolution development team can > devise a file format that is universal & of an open standard to back up > & restore mail easily ?!?
My method to backup and then restore evolution is close evolution and then run killev (old) or force-shutdown (new version). Copy all the files and directories from home/evolution to a CDR. After reinstalling (or more likely a fresh install of the latest linux version), I copy all of the backed up evolution directory from the CDR to home/temp/evolution. In the temp/home directory I will do a recursive chmod to home/temp/evolution. Then copy/overwrite the directory home/temp/evolution to home/evolution. Nothing is done as individual files or directories. My contact list is approaching 400 entries and would not tolerate having to import each .vcf individually. I have kept my evolution directory INTACT for almost 2 years now, from just after the beta up to v. 1.4.4. Probably have some old files that could be deleted, but I have not lost anything. If someone has an easier method I would be interested, but the current system is not too onerous. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01 _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
