On Thu, 2021-02-11 at 09:43 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote: > On Thu, 2021-02-11 at 15:19 +0800, JPM wrote: > > I currently use Evolution 3.10.4 ... to a new Evolution 3.38.3-1 > > Hi, > there's a very long gap between the two versions, I'm afraid there's > even no migration code from such an old version to the latest stable. > Some internal formats changed too. > > You can try to create a backup file in the 3.10 and restore from it in > the 3.38 the first time you run it in the Mail view (like from a > terminal with: evolution -c mail). If that fails, you can cleanup the > Evolution data (except of GSettings/DConf): > https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/data-storage.html > and start from scratch. That requires to run > `evolution --force-shutdown`, thus also the background processes are > started with clean data. > > Being all your accounts remote (IMAP/EWS/...), then I suggest to simply > recreate those from scratch. With respect of calendars, contacts and > such, right-click the calendar/address book/... in the respective view > and pick "Save as...", which should save the whole calendar/book/... > into a single file, which can be imported in the new version. Again, if > those are remote calendars/books/... then just add them manually. > > I do not recall, does 3.10.x save its data into ~/.evolution/ or under > ~/.local/share/evolution/? One of these locations contain local data, > those under On This Computer. For example mail is at ..../mail/local/ > subdirectory. I do not know whether 3.10 used Maildir or still MBOX, > but you can create a temporary account in the new version and point it > to the copy of that directory, which will let you copy/move the mail > from the directory copy to the current On This Computer location. I say > "directory copy", because it's better to work on those files from a > copy, because you'd have the original files in case anything goes > wrong. > > All of this only if the backup/restore won't work for you. > > Bye, > Milan > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > >
I will try the backup / restore first see if that works. If that copies some but not all or scrambles things, how do I restore Evolution to a 'virgin' state? I'm pretty sure 3.10 does use Maildir (in the settings it say Maildir next to 'On This Computer') but in the 'Save as' I can also choose MBOX I can also confirm that the mail data is save at ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local The accounts information is at: ~/.config/evolution/sources Looking in that location I see entries (3 per account) that start with a 15 numbers@ computer-name, some of those entries list an other computer-name? (my laptop computer) should I be concerned with that? -- Cheers, JP _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
