[ale] Evolution Migration 1.4 -> 2.02

[Jim Popovitch]

I had zero problems moving from Evolution 1.4 (RHEL WS3) to Evolution
2.?? (Debian Unstable) 8 or 9 months ago.  I had about 1GB of email
messages in multiple nested folders, and all I had to do was start up
Evolution.  It found the files and asked to convert them.  At that time
Evolution 1.4 stored config files and email in ~/evolution, after the
upgrade Evolution 2.x used ~/.evolution.  If my experience was anything
like James' I would have switched to TBird.  I don't care to research
this, but the ALE archives should have email headers that show the
before and after versions of Evolution that I was using.

Since moving from RHEL to Debian Unstable, I have even downgraded to
Debian Testing, all with the same ~/.evolution config and datafiles.  I
seem to remember that after the move from RHEL I had to re-add my pop3s
account settings.  My primary reason for moving to Evo 2.0 was to test
the Exchange integration.

-Jim P.


On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 21:46 -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 02:03 +0000, hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
> > The Evolution docs that I've seen don't cover this seemingly straightforward operation:  moving folders and messages from a 1.4 instance of Evolution to a 2.02 version.  Simply doing an initial run of Evo to set the basic mail parameters and flying in the old ~/evolution folder in place of the one that gets created does not work, nor does it work to compy the old one into the new one.  Evo's import functions don't seem to deal with this either.  What to do?
> > 
> > Jeff
> It is truly a PIA. The _ONLY_ way to migrate that works is to import
> each individual mail file one at a time. I have about 35 different mail
> folders. It was no fun. I guess they go too busy sleeping with $Novell$
> to be bothered with making a good upgrade path.
> 
> Oh, yeah. Doing an upgrade of the entire OS to a new one with evo2.x
> won't do it either.
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