On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 14:07, D. D. Brierton wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 13:52 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > I want to move the contact list from the FC2 box over to the FC3 > > system. Is this as simple as copying the evolution/local/Contacts > > directory over to the new system? Or should I just copy the > > addressbook.db and addressbook.db.summary over? > > That won't work -- the db format has changed between 1.x and 2.x. > Had figured that out. :( > > In evolution 1.4, go to contacts, Edit -> Select all (ctrl+a), and then > File -> Save as vCard or right-click any of the selected contacts and > select save as vCard. (I've only got evolution 2 now, so some of those > commands might be a little off but I know that you can do something like > what I described in evolution 1.) You can then import that vCard file > containing all of your contacts into evolution 2. Yes that worked. Thanks. Had sorted that out just prior to seeing your message. I also figured out that I could take the calendar.ics file and run an import on that to pickup the calendar appointments. That also seemed to work fine. Looks like I can complete my migration to the new laptop now. Thanks for the help. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. -- Abraham Lincoln
