On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 08:18 -0400, Stanley A. Klein wrote: > On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 07:40 -0400, Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 8 > > Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 12:55:38 +0300 > > From: Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: moving email from fc4 to fc5 in evolution > > To: tim@xxxxxxxxx, For users of Fedora Core releases > > <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Message-ID: <1147600538.4531.9.camel@gilboa-work-dev> > > Content-Type: text/plain > > > > On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 18:18 -0700, Timothy Payne wrote: > > > I tried the import but it's only for other programs. I'm afraid to just > > > copy data from my fc4 machine to a new fc5 install on another machine > > > and make a big mess. I have the old data on the new machine in a > > > separate directory. Any suggestions on how and what data to copy over > > > would be appreciated, I'm not clear on how Evolution stores data. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Tim... > > > > > > > Hello Tim, > > > > At least me in my experience (and YMMV) Evolution has been fully upgrade > > safe. > > I've been using it since 1.4.x on RH9/i386 and slowly upgraded it to 2.6 > > running on FC5/x86_64 without as much as a hiccup. (FC2, FC3 and FC4 on > > the way). > > > > I'd suggest you backup the .evolution directory in your home directory > > to a CD/USB disk/etc and upgrade. > > > > Gilboa > > > > I was upgrading from FC3 to FC5. When I went to import my inbox, with > about 6 months of recent mail, Evolution crashed. It didn't crash on > other mail files of comparable size, just inbox. I tried various things > but it crashed repeatedly. Luckily, I had a machine that I had left at > FC3 until my other upgrades were completed. I was able to bring up my > email inbox on that machine and break it up into smaller pieces that I > successfully imported. > > The crashes occurred in the very first part of the import, while > Evolution was discovering the format of the mail file. > > BTW, Evolution did not recognize my FC3 mail data and there was no way > to point to it for multi-file import. I had to do it as individual > files. > > > Stan Klein > Ummm.... well... I may have been lucky, then ;) Gilboa
