On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 23:41 +0100, guenther wrote: > > > I am using Linux Fedora Core 2, with Evolution Ver:1.4, but I > > > downloaded Linux Fedora Core 3, and install on second system. > > As you are running FC3 and Evolution 2.0.x on /another/ machine (or did > you install FC3 into a different, sparse partition? would mean the > same), I assume that those machines do not share the same $HOME over a > network file system. > > Then the new Version sure cannot migrate your old settings and data, > until you copy them over to the new machine. > > > If this is not the case or if you are in doubt, please describe your > issue more verbosely and do not follow the instructions below blindly. > Backups come in handy *always*. Paranoia safes your day. > > > > > I see Evolution is upgrage, but can not read evolution directory of > > > Evolution 1.4, and I want port my Emails to this new version. > > > Can you help me? > > > I want know a way for port Emails from Evolution Ver:1.4 to This new > > > version. > > First of all, you need to copy your old data to the new machine/system. > > Before doing this, you need to take some precautions. Please read till > the end, before following this steps. > > * Run 'gconftool-2 --shutdown' to shut down the GConf daemon on /both/ > systems, before copying the data in ~/.gconf around. Recent changes > might not be synced to disk otherwise. > > * Run 'evolution --force-shutdown' after closing Evolution on /both/ > systems, to shut down the backend tasks as well. e-d-s holds your data > like Contacts in memory, and recent changes might not be synced > otherwise. > > * Make sure both apps are shut down, while copying the data. Other apps > can (and will at some point) respawn GConf daemon, and the Clock applet > integrates and therefore respawns e-d-s in latest Gnome versions (since > Gnome 2.8, shipping with FC3 IIRC). > > When copying your data to another $HOME or restoring from backup, shut > down the mentioned apps before. If not, Evolution will continue to use > the data that already is in memory (e-d-s and gconf) rather than using > the just copied data.
Copying the Evo data in this case means the /old/ 1.4 data. Thus your ~/evolution directory. Evolution 2.0 will use the hidden ~/.evolution directory. > Follow the above instructions *only*, if you did *not* set up any mail > accounts, retrieved mails, added contacts, etc. on your *new* machine > (running Evo 2.0). Otherwise, they will be overwritten! > > > > you don't tell us which version your "new version" is, so i guess that > > it is version 2.0.x. :-) > > FC3 ships with 2.0.x, IIRC. :) > > > > normally evolution-2.0 should *automatically* migrate your old > > evolution-1.4 data. perhaps a look at guenther's migration faq at > > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2004-September/039343.html > > could help you/give you some hints. > > Yeah, probably. But his issue as I understand it, is the lack of old 1.4 > data. Which means, the data in ~/.gconf/apps/evolution should be > overwritten, rather than messing around with version keys and still not > having any accounts set up... ;-) > > ...guenther -- char *t="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}} _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
