Hello all, Now that I have 9.0 installed and working well, I would like to move everything off my 8.2 machine onto the 9.0 machine. Of course, this includes Evolution. I am looking for a clear set of instructions or to be pointed to a good resource on this issue. What is the best way to move my mail, contacts, rules, dates, appointments, accounts, prefs, etc. Thanks in advance, -=Thinker
What is the best way to move my mail, contacts, rules, dates, appointments, accounts, prefs, etc.
Move your ~/evolution directory Your home directories must be the same though (ie /home/thinker or whatever on both machines) -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 9.0). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 02:36, James Ogley wrote:
What is the best way to move my mail, contacts, rules, dates, appointments, accounts, prefs, etc.
Move your ~/evolution directory
Your home directories must be the same though (ie /home/thinker or whatever on both machines)
What I have done is just to tar the evolution directory. I have a samba server that I back this up to, so I run the following: tar -czvf /mnt/sambaserver/mailbackup.tgz evolution Then once the new machine is built you will move that mailbackup.tgz file to your home dir presumably and untar it with: tar -xzvf mailbackup.tgz This brings in all your old mail, rules contacts etc. Hope this helps, Vince
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 02:36, James Ogley wrote:
What is the best way to move my mail, contacts, rules, dates, appointments, accounts, prefs, etc.
Move your ~/evolution directory
Your home directories must be the same though (ie /home/thinker or whatever on both machines)
The old machine that currently has evolution is /home/thought and the new one that I want to move it to is is /home/thinker. Is there still I way I can accomplish this move?
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The old machine that currently has evolution is /home/thought and the new one that I want to move it to is is /home/thinker. Is there still I way I can accomplish this move?
Yes, copy the old machine's evolution directory onto the new one, save at something other than evolution (evolution.old for example) Then, you can import the mbox files from the various subdirectories to get your mail. You can just copy the Contacts/addressbook.db into place, I suspect you can do the same with the Calendar/calendar.ics -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 9.0) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org
On Wed December 3 2003 08:01 am, Thinker wrote:
Your home directories must be the same though (ie /home/thinker or whatever on both machines)
The old machine that currently has evolution is /home/thought and the new one that I want to move it to is is /home/thinker.
Is there still I way I can accomplish this move?
I suppose one easy thing to try (but I don't use evolution so don't know if it would work) would be to move your thought/evolution to your /home/ thinker/ directory and then make a sym link to it such as: ln -s ~/evolution/ /home/thought/evolution/ That would give you the same path to the evolution stuff that you had before. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 12/03/03 08:28 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Begin in the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. -- Lewis Carroll"
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 13:01, Thinker wrote:
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 02:36, James Ogley wrote:
What is the best way to move my mail, contacts, rules, dates, appointments, accounts, prefs, etc.
Move your ~/evolution directory
Your home directories must be the same though (ie /home/thinker or whatever on both machines)
The old machine that currently has evolution is /home/thought and the new one that I want to move it to is is /home/thinker.
Go into /home as root and do ln -s thinker thought. I imagine it will work, but trying it is probably the way to find out. HTH Fergus
Is there still I way I can accomplish this move?
-- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk
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