On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 04:54 +0100, Sasa Ostrouska wrote: >> Hi I know this is not direclty related to hacking on evolution, but I >> would like to ask one advice. >> I have about 5Gb of e-mails on my laptop which I use for work, and it >> is still on evolution 2.26.3. >> I would like to migrate now this stuff to evolution 3.6.x >> What is the best way to do that ? >> Simply upgrading evolution seems not to work, as it starts the wizard >> as if .evolution dir doesnt exist. > > If all you want to do is mail then it seems like it wouldn't be a bad > idea to make an 'external' local account (maildir or mbox [not certain > what is available in 2.26]) and then just copy all your mail. Upgrade. > 'Reconnect' the new evolution to that account.
Ok how can I do that external account ? You mean use something else like Thunderbird ? > > For contacts you can also select them all, save to a VCF file, and then > import that VCF files. That isn't bad as a backup in any case. > Ok thats clear. Thanks. Sasa _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers mailing list evolution-hackers@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
