On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:14:58 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > But the only really annoying thing is, that I had to reboot Ubuntu > Natty, because I wasn't able to adopt the Evolution files for Debian's > Evolution. > > Perhaps somebody knows what to do: > > After copying > # cp > -pr /media/natty/home/spinymouse/.local/share/evolution > /home/spinymouse/.local/share # cp > -pr /media/natty/home/spinymouse/.gnome2/accels/evolution > /home/spinymouse/.gnome2/accels Evolution started with a manager to set > up Evolution AND TO IMPORT FILES, so I deleted what I copied before. > Unfortunately there was no option to import files, Evolution tried to > force me to set up a new account. This is completely idiotic, because it > should be possible to simply copy the files for equal versions of > Evolution, from one to another install.
Agree with every word. > Does anybody know how to import account settings and emails, resp. what > files I need to copy? Well, I hit the same wall and, after spending couple of days researching and getting some advice from this newsgroup, succeeded to import everything. I documented the procedure for myself for the future. You might find it not the best, but this is the only way I found. Here is the copy from my file. 1. Restore e-mail account settings. ----------------------------------- - Run Evolution for the first time and create a default e-mail account. Evolution would create a tree of file and folders in home/ <username>/.gconf/apps/evolution directory. These would contain initial Evolution settings. - Close Evolution. - From terminal execute `ps ux | grep evolution` to see what Evolution related processes are runing. Kill all of them. - Overwrite the content of /home/<username>/.evolution/mail/ folder with the content from the corresponding backup folder. This would bring all your e-mails contained in their corresponding subfolders. - From backup /home/<username>/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml file copy content of all <li type="string"> *** </li> entries between <entry name="accounts" mtime="1305671823" type="list" ltype="string"> and its final </entry> tag to the newly generated /home/<username>/.gconf/apps/ evolution/mail/%gconf.xml file. For best result restart computer before starting Evolution. This would restore all your e-mail account settings. It's helpful if you have multiple accounts. 2. Import Calendars. -------------------- - Start Evolution - If you had multiple calendars in Evolution recreate empty calendars with the names you want (probably the same names you get used to). - Use File->Import menu option in Evolution to import corresponding calendar.ics files one at a time. To ensure good results restart a computer. 3. Import Tasks. ---------------- To import tasks into Evolution follow steps in pp.2 and import wanted tasks.ics files one at a time. 4. Import Address Book(s). -------------------------- - Start Evolution - Create empty Personal (exists by default), and any other address books you might have in Evolution. - Use File->Import menu option in Evolution to import corresponding address book files from backup (see below). NOTE: The address books can be exported for the backup purposes by executing the following commands: /usr/lib/evolution/2.30/evolution-addressbook-export --output=/ full_path_to_file/file_name.vcad (or csv format supported as well) Unfortunatelly it seems that the format: evolution-addressbook-export --output=OUTPUTFILE ADDRESSBOOK_NAME is not supported. At least it always failed on me with an error "addressbook_name" not found. To export multiple addressbooks you'll need to open evolution and to set one of them you want to export as a default addressbook, then execute the command above. Then set as the default the next addressbook and run the command again. This worked for me, I hope it will work for you too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/is0r94$3df$1...@dough.gmane.org
