[ale] Evolution Migration 1.4 -> 2.02

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Mon Jan 31 17:18:46 EST 2005


Clock was foobar post-power-outage.

Should be fixed now.


On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:00 -0500, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> 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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