Upgrading Evolution 1.4 to 2.0

[David Malcolm]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 19:26 +0100, Leon Stringer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A colleague previously running FC2 has tried upgrading to FC3t2. Since
> no GRUB entry was made for FC3t2 during the install process (only
> Win2000 was listed, the newly installed FC3t2 was not accessible!) she
> tried a new install erasing the FC2 partition.
> 
> She had backups of her ~/evolution folder and wants to migrate the mail
> to Evolution 2 (having updated the shipped package to 2.0). The
> ~/evolution folder is copied to the user directory, Evolution starts and
> appears to ignore this folder.
> 
> Has anyone been able to migrate their Evolution mail folders to 2.0 this
> way? I can't find any documentation on this.

Try shutting down evolution, running gconf-editor, and browsing
to /apps/evolution.  You should see two keys "last_version" and
"version".  Try editing them to "1.4.6" (the version she was running
with the old data), and then restart Evolution.  It should now try to
migrate the data from ~/evolution to ~/.evolution (it might trash any
data you've set up in ~/.evolution since the reinstall, though)

Does this fix it?

> 
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132878#c7 reports
> the GRUB issue. I realize I could have update grub.conf but couldn't be
> bothered to work out the entry).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Leon...
>