On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 22:14 +0800, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 09:38 -0400, carpetna...@researchintegration.org > wrote: > > -When I copied the .evolution folder, it did not have any of my emails > > or calendar entries from the two weeks I was trying to use Ubuntu 11.04. > > Apparently with Ubuntu 11.04 Evolution had started to use the new > > location, but there was no indication of this anywhere. > > There is a migration dialog when you start it for the first time after > upgrading (and you are offered to import a backup file at the first > run). > I don't remember such a dialog, but that was 10 months ago. Does the migration dialog happen on a new install also (moving to a new computer)? At any rate, I think the problem started when I wiped the Ubuntu 11.04 installation and went to the Fedora 15.
> > It's all well and good to say, "There isn't in the user docs because > > it's nothing that a user should need to care about. It should be all > > automatically." But the user does need to care about it since he has to > > fix the problem. And he has to understand what's happening. > > If the user needlessly shot him/herself in the foot by tinkering with > hidden folders (hidden. for a reason.) instead of using Evolution's > Backup/Restore functionality, then user documentation won't stop him/her > either. A support channel (like this mailing list) is more helpful for > such specific situations. > At any rate, I did not "needlessly shoot myself in the foot." Because of the glitches that the "automatic" process created, I had to start tinkering with the hidden files when I didn't get any relevant help from the mailing list. There wasn't at any point any indication of a need to use the Evo Backup/Restore function because I was copying my whole home directory, hidden files and all, to the new computer. There was no reason to think that moving Evo required any special process. Why the secretiveness? I thought Gnu/Linux was supposed to be about openness. Shouldn't this include openness for the end user as well as for the geek insiders? If there had been even a couple of paragraphs in the help documentation explaining the change, not only of location but also of file type, I could have dealt with my migration problems more effectively. > andre So what's the answer to my question about what I do now? I've asked that question twice and only gotten answers to the side issues. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
