[ale] Evolution data migration to a new install

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 02:04 -0400, Jim Seymour wrote:

> 
> I have already tried that and the data is not recognized by evolution. I
> just tried again, deleting the entire .evolution directory and then
> doing a copy of all of the data from the old system. Again, not a single
> contact, memo or todo shows up. I am at a loss as to how to migrate this
> data (most importantly the calender).

At one point evolution data was moved from ~/.evolution to ~/evolution. 

My current setup (FC5) uses the ~/.evolution.

Inside I have ~/.evolution/mail/local which is where all my stuff is.
-rw-------  1 jkinney jkinney   9536528 Jun  8 02:13 ale
-rw-rw-r--  1 jkinney jkinney       246 Jun  8 10:04 ale.cmeta
-rw-------  1 jkinney jkinney    369648 Jun  8 02:13 ale.ev-summary
-rw-------  1 jkinney jkinney    471040 Jun  8 02:13 ale.ibex.index
-rw-------  1 jkinney jkinney   1218116 Jun  8 02:13 ale.ibex.index.data

That is the evolution listing for the ale folder. In order to migrate
from one machine to another, I think all you need to do copy the ale
file to the new machines ~/.evolution/mail/local folder (with evolution
closed!!!) and then start up evolution. The other files will be
generated. Be prepared to wait a long time if you have _large_ files to
migrate.

My calendar data is in ~/.evolution/calendar/local/system/
and currently looks like:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jkinney jkinney 427336 Jun  4 12:40 calendar.ics
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jkinney jkinney  80471 Oct 11  2004
calendar.ics-pilot-sync-evolution-calendar-0.db
-rw------- 1 jkinney jkinney 482347 Apr 16 11:42
calendar.ics-pilot-sync-evolution-calendar-500.db
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jkinney jkinney  39906 Oct 11  2004
calendar.ics-pilot-sync-evolution-calendar-6197.db
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jkinney jkinney  99802 Oct 11  2004
pilot-map-calendar-0.xml
-rw------- 1 jkinney jkinney  87633 Apr 16 11:42
pilot-map-calendar-500.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jkinney jkinney  50787 Oct 11  2004
pilot-map-calendar-6197.xml


(Note the multiple pilot-sync files. RH/Fedora badly broke pilot sync
around FC3 - Grr.)

Again all that should be needed is to move the calendar.ics file.

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