I can't work out where this thread is currently, so excuse me for replying to the original message.
One thing you never said, or I can't recall seeing is what type of mail account you use, but since you are worried about moving mail around, I presume these are POP accounts. > > I am having to change HDDs and with that from Solydx testing to Solydx > stable. Testing has Evol. 3.12.6 and stable has Evol. 3.4.4. The > testing OS will become the stable OS sometime early next year hopefully > with 3.12.6 but I don't know for sure. > > I believe they will not restore backwards in versions. Correct. Although I don't think there is much difference between sub-version levels. i.e. 3.12.6 would probably be able to cope with a backup created by 3.12.7, although it won't be "recommended". You definitely won't be able to restore a 3.12.7 backup to 3.4.4. You have to remember what the backup made within Evolution actually is - Evo dumps the dconf/gconf configuration to a file, then tars up that file and the data directories into an archive. On restore the file is just untar'd to the correct place, the configuration is restored and then Evolution is restarted. On restart, evolution sees old data in place and starts an upgrade process on that data. Version 3.4.4 will not know about the 3.12.7 formats, so won't know what to do. Most of the issue with backups is, I suspect, that people have already used Evolution before doing the restore, and things get very confused. > I have a tar.gz > with 3.12.7 but I have never successfully installed one. Can this be > done on this Debian system or do I have to wait for next year? I have successfully restored Evo tar backups, even going between different versions - I must admit I haven't done it for a couple of years though. It shouldn't matter what the distro is (unless they've done something odd to Evo!). > > I have both OSs going right now so email is still working and I have > time to ponder this. > If you want to downgrade Evo, then I suspect you will have to create the accounts manually and then treat the old mail data as external and import it in to Evo by creating new temporary accounts pointing to the old data. The important thing is to not restore the Evo data to the same place as is going to be used by the downgrade version - that will just be the cause of confusion. If you have a tar file of the data from 3.12.7, create a new directory and untar the file into that - then you will be able to see where your mail files are - probably .local/share/evolution in the temp directory (not ~/.local) Of course the other way is to move all your mail to an IMAP server, that way you never ever have to worry about moving your mail between versions (just the configurations!). P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
