(new) Subject: Hacking gconf in 24 quick and easy steps ;) This method "worked for me" to migrate address books, which is the only thing I really cared about. I make no warranty or guarantees about how well this will work on your system and/or how well it will eat all of your data. Make backups...often.
My system is openSuSE 10.2 x86_64 with: evolution-2.8.2-4 evolution-data-server-1.8.2-5 evolution-data-server-32bit-1.8.2-5 evolution-exchange-2.8.2-4 evolution-pilot-2.8.2-4 evolution-sharp-0.12.0-5 evolution-webcal-2.8.0-26 Assuming your evo is brand spanking new (has no data in it), and you've copied your old home directory from the other PC to somewhere (OLDHOMEDIR) on the new PC. 1) Open evo 2) Goto Contacts (whoever said GoTo statements were not useful?) 3) Create a new address book 4) Quit evo 5) run `evolution --force-shutdown` 6) cp -apv \ OLDHOMEDIR/.evolution/addressbook/local/[0-9]* \ $HOME/.evolution/addressbook/local/ 7) Make note of the directory names that are copied, for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8) cd $HOME/.evolution/addressbook/local/ ; rename oldhost hostname *.oldhost 9) open gedit (or your favorite editor) 10) run gconf-editor 11) select /apps /evolution /addressbook 12) double click `sources` (right pane) and a new window opens 13) edit the entry that says "On This Computer" 14) copy (ctrl-c or whatever) the text over to your editor 15) in your editor, hack and slice as follow.... Example XML <?xml version="1.0"?> <group uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="On This Computer" base_uri="file:///home/username/.evolution/addressbook/local" readonly="no"> <source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="Personal" uri="file:///home/username/.evolution/addressbook/local/system" relative_uri="system"> <properties> <property name="completion" value="true"/> </properties> </source> <source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="newab" relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/> </group> Notice the <source> for the new address book you created. We're going to play with it. Copy the newab <source> once for each address book you want to migrate. <source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="newab" relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/> <source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="newab" relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/> <source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="newab" relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/> 16) Replace the uid and relative_uri with our new directory names 17) Change newab to whatever you want to call the folder. !!! DON'T JUST COPY AND PASTE MY EXAMPLE. !!! Your system will have different directory and hostnames. <source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="Work" relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/> <source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="Friends" relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/> <source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="Enemies" relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/> 18) Condense it back into one line. (this is for sanities sake, because I don't know if it matters or not to gconf and/or evo) <?xml version="1.0"?><group uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="On This Computer" base_uri="file:///home/username/.evolution/addressbook/local" readonly="no"><source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="Personal" uri="file:///home/username/.evolution/addressbook/local/system" relative_uri="system"><properties><property name="completion" value="true"/></properties></source><source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="newab" relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/><source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="Work" relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/><source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="Friends" relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/><source uid="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" name="Enemies" relative_uri="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/></group> Note: The above XML section is one long line! 19) Copy/Paste your new entry back into the "Edit List Entry" you copied it out of. Be sure to KEEP the `null` character at the end of the original entry (it looks like a box with funny characters in it on my system... again, this is for sanities sake, because I don't know if it matters or not to gconf and/or evo, but I'd bet it does :) ) 20) click OK (closing Edit List Entry) 21) click OK (closing Edit Key window) 22) quick gconf-editor 23) Open evo 24) check your handywork. Note well: The first time I exited evo after doing this, evo crashed. It was ok after restarting it again. There are probably some nifty gconf tools to do the same work, but I'm a gconf lightweight (and generally don't like gconf), so this was my quick fix. A similar method may work for migrating other parts of evo, but I have not attempted anything else. Peace, Love, Freedom & OpenSource --Keith _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
