Re: [Evolution] Evolution backup/restore problem
Hi all, Hej, I just upgraded my main system from OpenSuSE 10.3 to 11.0. I use evolution for my calendar and mail, and as I've done in the past, I made a backup of my home directory before doing the new install. Then I copied back the contents of ~/.evolution, ~/.gconf/apps/evolution, and ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution. I thought that was all I had done in the past, and that had been sufficient to restore all my mail configurations, folders, etc. But this time it doesn't seem to have worked. When I start evolution, it seems to come up as a new install, and starts taking me through the wizard to set it all up. Do read this? http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ 4 Interoperability 4.1 Where does Evolution store my data? 4.2 How can I completely backup evolution? 4.3 How can I transfer all my Evolution data between computers/to a new partition/to a new computer? With my SUSE 11.0 and Evolution 2.22.1.1 it works. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. — Naguib Mahfouz Where do you found this? cu, Michael ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Newbie Questions
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 16:58 +1100, Andrew J Fortune wrote: Sorry but I looked here, and found answers to none of the questions, except (4) which Evolution cryptically refers to as Expunge. Expunge is an IMAP term, it's not specific to Evolution. You need to understand the IMAP model for deleting messages: delete marks a message for deletion, but doesn't remove it. Expunge removes it. Evolution shows deleted messages in a Trash folder, but Trash is a *virtual* folder, i.e. the messages have not physically moved. If you deselect View-Hide Deleted Messages in some folder you'll see them in their original positions, marked with a line through them. Expunging a folder removes the marked messages in that folder. Emptying Trash is equivalent to expunging all the marked messages in all folders. Before you ask, you can't expunge an individual message. IMAP has no operation for moving messages between folders. It only allows copying. Evo has a Move operation, but it works as copy+delete, and of course delete follows the above model. So after moving a message you'll still see it in its original location (depending on your View settings), but marked for deletion. I've no idea how to import Outlook messages, but if they're on an IMAP server there's no problem as you can just access them directly. Alternatively, have them dumped as mbox files (one file per folder) and import these into Evolution (mbox is the lowest-common-denominator mailbox format under Unix/Linux and all clients support it at least for importing). Changing fonts is probably system-specific. In Linux it's mostly done by the Gnome desktop, not by Evolution itself (but look under Preferences-Mail Preferences-General). I don't know how this is done in Windows. Setting Evo as the default mail client is Windows-specific and has nothing to do with Evolution as such (Evo might have a helper function for it, but it might not). IIRC you right-click on something in the Windows Start menu, but don't quote me :-) I'm not sure what you mean by saving messages. You can move messages between folders with drag-and-drop or select messages and do Message-Move (or Copy). I imagine Evo supports the usual Windows method of Ctrl-Click to select multiple messages. Or use filters if you want to automate it. Note that automatic filters only work on Unseen messages (check the FAQ), but you can also apply them manually (Ctrl-Y). poc PS Please don't post to this list in HTML. PPS Please don't top-post as it makes threads harder to read. ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
[Evolution] SolvedRe: Evolution backup/restore problem
Thanks, with some fiddling, and reentering some passwords, it's going again now. Cheers, Simon You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. — Naguib Mahfouz - Original Message From: Michael Keydel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: evolution-list@gnome.org Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 4:42:37 AM Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution backup/restore problem Hi all, Hej, I just upgraded my main system from OpenSuSE 10.3 to 11.0. I use evolution for my calendar and mail, and as I've done in the past, I made a backup of my home directory before doing the new install. Then I copied back the contents of ~/.evolution, ~/.gconf/apps/evolution, and ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution. I thought that was all I had done in the past, and that had been sufficient to restore all my mail configurations, folders, etc. But this time it doesn't seem to have worked. When I start evolution, it seems to come up as a new install, and starts taking me through the wizard to set it all up. Do read this? http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ 4 Interoperability 4.1 Where does Evolution store my data? 4.2 How can I completely backup evolution? 4.3 How can I transfer all my Evolution data between computers/to a new partition/to a new computer? With my SUSE 11.0 and Evolution 2.22.1.1 it works. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. — Naguib Mahfouz Where do you found this? cu, Michael ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
