Migration for evolution 2.2.3 (FC4) to evolution 2.6.0 (FC5) After clean install of Fedora Core 5 I restored the directories:- ~/.evolution ~/.gconf/apps/evolution On starting evolution 2.6.0 (FC5) the "evolution-data-server-1.6" would immediately say it has quit unexpectedly and would I like to restart it? On "evolution-data-server-1.6" restart it would remain running. MAIL WINDOW Re-setup the IMAP accounts otherwise for mail all the old email was present and new email was filtered using the old email filters. Email side appeared to work. CALENDAR Calendar seemed to be working with all old calendar items present. CONTACTS Only 20 of 755 were shown and a message of searching was present in the status bar. Any attempt to search for a contact locked up evolution. SOLUTION TO CONTACTS PROBLEM ??? Stop evolution --force-shutdown then remove the the old "addressbook.db and addressbook.db.summary (save them somewhere as some may have another solution for updating them) from:- ~/.evolution/addressbook/local/system Opening evolution now doesn't cause "evolution-data-server-1.6" to crash. Contacts is now empty but the whole of evolution now seems much happier. I then imported a previously saved saved "list.vcf" VCARD of the whole contacts database from evolution 2.2.3. All may 755 contacts restored and working in evolution 2.6.0 So unless someone else has a better solution for evolution contacts migration make sure you save a VCARD of your contacts in FC4 evolution before clean FC5 install. -- Andrew Gray <andrewg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linnet Solution Ltd
