[ale] Evolution Migration 1.4 -> 2.02

Jerald Sheets jsheets at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 31 17:05:20 EST 2005


I just got this.

It filtered way down my list in time frame.  

Is the monster temporarily eating messages, or is your system clock
foooobarrr?

--J


(sorry, I'm doing an Evolution migration and it was maddening to not be
able to find the message, so it was fresh on my mind)



On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 16:54 +0000, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> My attempt to concatenate all of the old one-file-per-message files to
> the new monolithic Inbox file dind't work.  At launch, Evo tried to
> re-index the massive Inbox file but I would up with an Inbox with a few
> dozen "megamessages" with no subject, source, or date.  
> 
> So. word of warning:  Evolution 1.x to 2.x upgrades can be hell on
> skates when it comes to retaining messages.  There is probably a way to
> do it, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort.  The under-RAMmed machine
> tried to curl up and die at the thought of opening one of those messages
> up.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 16:44 +0000, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 02:19 -0500, Raylynn Knight wrote:
> > 
> > > Not sure when the transition was made, but it was seamless for me.  I've
> > > been using Evolution for years.  Moved from RedHat to SuSE to Mandrake
> > > on my main box.  I now have Evolution 2.03 and I've never done anything
> > > more than leave my home directory alone when moving from one distro to
> > > another or upgrading from one release to the next.
> > 
> > I wonder if that's because you started out with the big-file setting to
> > begin with.
> > 
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