Hi,
A colleague previously running FC2 has tried upgrading to FC3t2. Since no GRUB entry was made for FC3t2 during the install process (only Win2000 was listed, the newly installed FC3t2 was not accessible!) she tried a new install erasing the FC2 partition.
She had backups of her ~/evolution folder and wants to migrate the mail to Evolution 2 (having updated the shipped package to 2.0). The ~/evolution folder is copied to the user directory, Evolution starts and appears to ignore this folder.
Has anyone been able to migrate their Evolution mail folders to 2.0 this way? I can't find any documentation on this.
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132878#c7 reports the GRUB issue. I realize I could have update grub.conf but couldn't be bothered to work out the entry).
Thanks in advance,
Leon...
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 19:26 +0100, Leon Stringer wrote:
Hi,
A colleague previously running FC2 has tried upgrading to FC3t2. Since no GRUB entry was made for FC3t2 during the install process (only Win2000 was listed, the newly installed FC3t2 was not accessible!) she tried a new install erasing the FC2 partition.
She had backups of her ~/evolution folder and wants to migrate the mail to Evolution 2 (having updated the shipped package to 2.0). The ~/evolution folder is copied to the user directory, Evolution starts and appears to ignore this folder.
Has anyone been able to migrate their Evolution mail folders to 2.0 this way? I can't find any documentation on this.
Try shutting down evolution, running gconf-editor, and browsing to /apps/evolution. You should see two keys "last_version" and "version". Try editing them to "1.4.6" (the version she was running with the old data), and then restart Evolution. It should now try to migrate the data from ~/evolution to ~/.evolution (it might trash any data you've set up in ~/.evolution since the reinstall, though)
Does this fix it?
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132878#c7 reports the GRUB issue. I realize I could have update grub.conf but couldn't be bothered to work out the entry).
Thanks in advance,
Leon...
Thanks for your reply. (I was out of the office yesterday so I've only just had a chance to try it).
Try shutting down evolution, running gconf-editor, and browsing to /apps/evolution. You should see two keys "last_version" and "version". Try editing them to "1.4.6" (the version she was running with the old data), and then restart Evolution. It should now try to migrate the data from ~/evolution to ~/.evolution (it might trash any data you've set up in ~/.evolution since the reinstall, though)
Does this fix it?
Unfortunately this doesn't fix the issue. Changing the key to 1.4.6 merely causes Evolution to say:
Delete old data from version 1.4.6?
The previous version of evolution stored its data in a different location.
If you choose to remove this data, the entire contents of the "evolution" directory will be removed permanently. If you choose to keep this data, then you may manually remote the contents of "evolution" at your convenience.
Choosing any option doesn't bring her old folders back...