On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 18:06, guenther wrote: > > > > Greetings - I have Evolution 1.4.6 on my desktop with SuSe Pro 9.0. My > > > > laptop has Ubuntu 5.10 with Evolution 2.2. I would like to copy my > > > > /home/kelly/evolution files with all my accounts, settings, etc. to the > > > > laptop. > > > > > > Well, basically the answer is this post: > > > http://galactus.ximian.com/pipermail/evolution/2005-May/043454.html > > [...] > > > First of all some basics: Both 1.4.x as well as 2.x.y do store (most of) > > > the settings using GConf, thus they are in ~/.gconf/apps/evolution. Evo > > > 1.4.x still uses the old ~/evolution directory for data, which changed > > > to the hidden directory ~/.evolution since 2.0.0. > > > > > > *If* there is *no* new Evo data which you want to keep on the target > > > machine you should remove those dirs first to cleanly import your old > > > 1.4.x data. Namely that is: > > > > > > On the *target* machine remove the directories ~/evolution (if it > > > exists), the new data dir ~/.evolution as well as the settings dir > > > ~/.gconf/apps/evolution. Be sure to kill all backend tasks *first* > > > before messing with those dirs: 'evolution --force-shutdown' will close > > > the Evo backend tasks and 'gconftool-2 --shutdown' will shut down the > > > GConf daemon. If you don't do this, the date still will be in memory! > > > After removing those dirs, we got a clean Evo environment on the target > > > machine. > > > > Before I proceed, I want to make sure that I am going in the right > > direction. In my target (i.e. Ubuntu) system, there is nothing in > > /home/kelly besides Desktop and Documents, i.e. there is no > > /home/kelly/evolution (since Evo hasn't been set up yet) but there is > > also no gconf or .gconf, etc. (I do have the "show hidden and backup > > files" checked). Does this mean that Ubuntu keeps these files elsewhere? > > I've done a search and haven't found them yet. Or should I just proceed? > > Well, I can not believe, there is nothing besides Desktop and Documents > in your $HOME, if you did use GNOME at all with that account. Even > without using GNOME at all, there very likely are hidden dot files by > default. And I highly doubt, that Ubuntu patched GConf to use a > different directory... > > There sure is no evolution (1.4.x style, not hidden) dir -- cause you > never used this old version on the new account. FWIW, if that directory > doesn't exist, you don't need to delete it. ;-) But you need to copy > that dir (as mentioned in the detailed discussion) to make Evolution > migrate that data. > > Nautilus just failed for me too, to display the hidden dot files -- > until I opened a new Nautilus window after changing the displaying > option. Reloading the dirs contents did not change anything. This is a > Nautilus bug... > > Nonetheless, they do exist: Open a terminal and use the command > 'ls -a ~' to see for yourself. This will list all the hidden > directories, no matter what Nautilus displays... > > > Regarding "going into the right direction": As I mentioned, always do > have backups handy. That way you always can revert back without losing > valuable data. > > Hope this clears things up... > > ...guenther
Guenther - I followed your instructions exactly but I was not successful. When I got to the point of opening Evo in the target machine, it gave me an error message saying that there was a file missing for migration and then defaulted me to the set-up wizard. Unfortunately, I didn't catch the name of the file. Is there any way that I can try to "force" the migration again, if only to get the missing file's name? Thanks. Kelly -- Kelly J. Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
