On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 13:26 +0100, M.Blackmore wrote: > I'm migrating from a slower 433mhz box running Suse 9.3 (with xfcs4 in a > small amount of ram) to a "newer" 2ghz box with 10.0 (installing real > soon now ..tick-tock-tick-tock). > > When this is done I want to migrate over the bookmarks for Firefox > (easy) and the contents of Evolution (got a shared network drive to ease > things). > > However, it doesn't look like Evolution is going to be so easy. > > No luser menus for export anywhere, and my level of knowledge is pretty > shallow. Have I missed something? > > The most useful thing google showed up was a couple of scripts for > exporting the contacts for thunderbird. Can't use thunderbird, for some > reason it screws up totally on my email provider (which after 15yrs I > don't want to adandon as it provides me with IMAP, though I have to keep > the folder sizes moderate on the server, so have to periodically copy > archives onto the local disks. Or the imap chokes). > > Seems a bit odd I can't just seamlessly move something from evolution on > one box to evolution on the other - both the same version afaik tell, > too. > > Must be other inexperienced lusers who will hit similar problems ... any > "instructions" or pointers anyone can give? A How-to anywhere? > > > If both versions of evolution are the same try: rsync -varpltz ~.evolution/ new_machine:/home/user_name/.evolution Just tried it here from my 9.3 desktop to my 10.0 laptop and worked fine.
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