Re: [Evolution] Tranfer of accounts [Scanned]
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 21:18 +1000, Christopher M Bailey wrote: On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 11:44 +0200, Antonio M wrote: [snip] evolution-3.2.3-3 on the old computer with Fedora 16 Evolution 3.4.1 is running on Fedora 17 Hang on, have I got this right? You're running BETA software (Fedora 16 is the latest stable release), did not use the recommended method for transferring data and have cleansed the original system before checking to see if your backups are usable? I'm confident the folks here will be able to help you out, if it is possible. However I think that the lesson to be learnt here is to plain your migrations, especially when beta code is involved. Actually the real problem is with whoever thought a separate backup and restore tool for an email application was a good idea. For more than 20 years a simple backup of all the files in your home directory has been enough to get everything restored. Yet someone, somewhere decided to change that and seems to expect that every user of evolution has looked for a backup option (in the email client? what?). Even when things did happen, such as a change from mbox to maildir, there was a simple tool to run that would do the conversion. Where is that tool for Evolution? And no, installing a complete copy of the older Evolution and all its support libraries (and their libraries, etc.) is not a simple tool. -- Knowledge Is Power Power Corrupts Study Hard Be Evil signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Tranfer of accounts [Scanned]
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 10:48 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote: On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 21:18 +1000, Christopher M Bailey wrote: Actually the real problem is with whoever thought a separate backup and restore tool for an email application was a good idea For more than 20 years a simple backup of all the files in your home directory has been enough to get everything restored. That *is* enough. You backup and restore your home directory [not a cherry picked backup] - and it works. I've done it many times. Yet someone, somewhere decided to change that and seems to expect that every user of evolution has looked for a backup option (in the email client? what?). Yep. A great idea for when you just want to backup or transfer the contents managed by that application. Even when things did happen, such as a change from mbox to maildir, there was a simple tool to run that would do the conversion. Where is that tool for Evolution? The tools *is* Evolution. It just couldn't be easier. Evolution will migrate forward from previous versions - to a reasonable degree. And if you explicitly choose to use mbox or maildir - it support that. I just don't see what you are complaining about. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Tranfer of accounts [Scanned]
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 11:44 +0200, Antonio M wrote: 2012/5/7 Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 11:21 +0200, Antonio M wrote: Evolution 3.4.1 Which distro is this? And which version was on the old computer? andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list evolution-3.2.3-3 on the old computer with Fedora 16 Evolution 3.4.1 is running on Fedora 17 Hang on, have I got this right? You're running BETA software (Fedora 16 is the latest stable release), did not use the recommended method for transferring data and have cleansed the original system before checking to see if your backups are usable? I'm confident the folks here will be able to help you out, if it is possible. However I think that the lesson to be learnt here is to plain your migrations, especially when beta code is involved. Cheers, Chris -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Tranfer of accounts [Scanned]
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 21:18 +1000, Christopher M Bailey wrote: On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 11:44 +0200, Antonio M wrote: evolution-3.2.3-3 on the old computer with Fedora 16 Evolution 3.4.1 is running on Fedora 17 Hang on, have I got this right? You're running BETA software (Fedora 16 is the latest stable release), did not use the recommended method for transferring data and have cleansed the original system before checking to see if your backups are usable? I'm confident the folks here will be able to help you out, if it is possible. However I think that the lesson to be learnt here is to plain your migrations, especially when beta code is involved. Everything needed to piece together a borked [1] is found at http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.2/data-storage.html.en http://geekubuntu.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/how-to-backup-evolution-mail/ might also be somewhat helpful but is *really* out of date. [1] borked by the user - this is *NOT* Evolution's or GNOME's fault; so no messages with subjects like evolution is not reliable For a sane/correct way to do this - http://www.ghacks.net/2010/05/31/backup-and-restore-evolution/ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1588451 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
