migrating to the new evolution

[Andrew Farris]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 17:35 -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 22:14 +0100, Keith Sharp wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:18 -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I am normally a heavy evolution user.
> > > 
> > > What is the manual procedure to move an addressbook from an older
> > > version to the new version?
> > > 
> > > I would also like to move some of my old e-mail folders into the new
> > > version of evolution.  
> > > 
> > > I used to have a directory:  $(HOME)/evolution
> > > Now I have: $(HOME)/.evolution
> > 
> > The first time you run the new Evolution it should migrate everything
> > for you.  Once it has done the migration it asks if you want to
> > automatically delete your old ${HOME}/evolution folder or would you like
> > to do it later yourself.
> > 
> > If this has not happened for you, then search back through the list for
> > posts by Dave Malcolm of Red Hat who described how to change a value in
> > GConf to force Evolution to try the migration again.
> 
> Okay, that worked great.
> Now, I would like to move a mail folder from one machine to another.
> How does one do that?  I have 3 different folders on my desktop machine
> and would like to move one of the folders to my laptop.
> 
> When I look at the directory/file structure of the .evolution everything
> looks encoded.  I can't make heads nor tails.
> 
> Would be nice if evolution would allow me to import mail from evolution.
> 
> Is it possible to archive an evolution folder on one machine and import
> to evolution on another?

If your username is the same on both systems you should be able to get
away with a simple tar + gz, move, untar and run..  there may be some
weirdness but afaik, that works.  If you've still got the old evolution
mail directory, you could just move it and then import from previous
version the same way to did for the desktop.
- andrew