[ale] Evolution data migration to a new install

[Jim Seymour]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 14:17 +0000, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 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.
> 
Hi James,

Sorry for the late reply. I will give the ics file trick a try on
Monday. Something has to work ;-)

Thanks,
-- 
Jim Seymour <jim at wingbarscafe.com>
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