On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 19:30 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > 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.
Yes, thank you very much, your howto needed a little upgrade. Restore e-mail account settings. -------------------------------- - Run Evolution for the first time and create a default e-mail account. - 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/<useraccount>/.evolution/mail/ folder with the content from the corresponding original folder. For Ubuntu Natty and Debian stable it's not ~/.evolution anymore! # cp -pr /<mount>/home/<useraccount>/.local/share/evolution/mail /home/<useraccount>/.local/share/evolution - From original /home/<useraccount>/.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/<useraccount>/.gconf/apps/ evolution/mail/%gconf.xml file. For best result restart computer before starting Evolution. If the accountname would differ or one Evolution still does use ~/.evolution, than you've got a lot to edit. I run # cp -p /media/natty/home/spinymouse/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/% gconf.xml /home/spinymouse/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml OTOH it should be possible to use 1 partition for the emails and to get access by Evolution from different installs, assumed that the mount points do have the same path names, but I didn't really verified this ;). Just doing this all filters get lost, there was a message regarding to junk, mails that should not be shown by threads are shown by threads, anyway, I got the mails. Regards, Ralf PS: Sending from the 'new' Evolution. -- 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/1306883729.2328.3.camel@debian
