I put a new hard drive in my laptop. Before doing this, I copied my home directory to a usb hard drive. After setting up FC6 on the new hard drive, I created my user id (same as the old drive) and then copied the hidden directory .evolution to my new home directory before starting evolution. When I started evolution for the first time, all my old e-mails were intact as was the contact address book. The only thing I had to re-do was setting up the e-mail server info. Everything worked perfectly - evolution has never crashed (in fact it seems to work better in FC6 than it did in FC4).
Rick B. On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 14:32 +0800, LnxGnome wrote: > (new) Subject: Hacking gconf in 24 quick and easy steps ;) > > This method "worked for me" to migrate address books, which is the > only thing I really cared about. I make no warranty or guarantees > about how well this will work on your system and/or how well it will > eat all of your data. Make backups...often. > > My system is openSuSE 10.2 x86_64 with: > evolution-2.8.2-4 > evolution-data-server-1.8.2-5 > evolution-data-server-32bit-1.8.2-5 > evolution-exchange-2.8.2-4 > evolution-pilot-2.8.2-4 > evolution-sharp-0.12.0-5 > evolution-webcal-2.8.0-26 > > Assuming your evo is brand spanking new (has no data in it), and > you've copied your old home directory from the other PC to somewhere > (OLDHOMEDIR) on the new PC. > > 1) Open evo > 2) Goto Contacts (whoever said GoTo statements were not useful?) > 3) Create a new address book > 4) Quit evo > 5) run `evolution --force-shutdown` > 6) cp -apv \ > OLDHOMEDIR/.evolution/addressbook/local/[0-9]* \ > $HOME/.evolution/addressbook/local/ > > 7) Make note of the directory names that are copied, for example: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 8) cd $HOME/.evolution/addressbook/local/ ; rename oldhost hostname *.oldhost > 9) open gedit (or your favorite editor) > 10) run gconf-editor > 11) select /apps /evolution /addressbook > 12) double click `sources` (right pane) and a new window opens > 13) edit the entry that says "On This Computer" > 14) copy (ctrl-c or whatever) the text over to your editor > 15) in your editor, hack and slice as follow.... > > Example XML > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <group uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="On This Computer" > base_uri="file:///home/username/.evolution/addressbook/local" > readonly="no"> > <source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="Personal" > uri="file:///home/username/.evolution/addressbook/local/system" > relative_uri="system"> > <properties> > <property name="completion" value="true"/> > </properties> > </source> > <source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="newab" > relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/> > </group> > > Notice the <source> for the new address book you created. We're going > to play with it. > > Copy the newab <source> once for each address book you want to migrate. > > <source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="newab" > relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/> > <source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="newab" > relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/> > <source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="newab" > relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/> > > 16) Replace the uid and relative_uri with our new directory names > 17) Change newab to whatever you want to call the folder. > > !!! DON'T JUST COPY AND PASTE MY EXAMPLE. !!! Your system will have > different directory and hostnames. > > <source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="Work" > relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/> > <source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="Friends" > relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/> > <source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="Enemies" > relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/> > > 18) Condense it back into one line. (this is for sanities sake, > because I don't know if it matters or not to gconf and/or evo) > > <?xml version="1.0"?><group uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > name="On This Computer" > base_uri="file:///home/username/.evolution/addressbook/local" > readonly="no"><source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > name="Personal" > uri="file:///home/username/.evolution/addressbook/local/system" > relative_uri="system"><properties><property name="completion" > value="true"/></properties></source><source > uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="newab" > relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/><source > uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="Work" > relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/><source > uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="Friends" > relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/><source > uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="Enemies" > relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/></group> > > Note: The above XML section is one long line! > > 19) Copy/Paste your new entry back into the "Edit List Entry" you > copied it out of. Be sure to KEEP the `null` character at the end of > the original entry (it looks like a box with funny characters in it on > my system... again, this is for sanities sake, because I don't know if > it matters or not to gconf and/or evo, but I'd bet it does :) ) > > 20) click OK (closing Edit List Entry) > 21) click OK (closing Edit Key window) > 22) quick gconf-editor > 23) Open evo > 24) check your handywork. > > Note well: The first time I exited evo after doing this, evo crashed. > It was ok after restarting it again. > > There are probably some nifty gconf tools to do the same work, but I'm > a gconf lightweight (and generally don't like gconf), so this was my > quick fix. > > A similar method may work for migrating other parts of evo, but I have > not attempted anything else. > > Peace, Love, Freedom & OpenSource > --Keith > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
