Am Freitag, den 10.02.2012, 19:53 +0100 schrieb Thomas Mittelstaedt: > Am Mittwoch, den 08.02.2012, 14:03 -0500 schrieb Joe Fitzmyer: > > I have a user in our company that recently was given a new machine running > > Mint 12. Previously he had been using a distribution that used Evolution > > 2.0.3. > > > > How can I migrate his data to the current Evolution 3.2.2? His older > > version > > does not support the Backup option. The file structures are somewhat > > different between the two versions. > > > > Thanks for any insight. > > Well, since it's such an old version, I'd suggest, your user should > start afresh with evolution 3.2.2 and import the old data using the > import-feature in the new version. I hope this is not too cumbersome. > Maybe, there exists a plug-in which can import more than one mbox-file > or more than one calendar file. > Hope that helps! >
Well, or you could just save the old data into a tar.gz archive and use the backup-restore feature of the new version. That process may not be perfect but could import most of the data and save some time. I can remember having tested that backup-restore feature and it would properly move old data from the ~/.evolution directory to the new ~/.local/... directory structure. (I can also remember that I had to delete or rename ~/.evolution to something else after the import so that evolution would not try to pick up calendar data from the now empty .evolution/calendar folder.) -- thomas _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
