Re: [Evolution] Migrate data from 2.28,3 to 3.10.4

2014-10-05 Thread Alexander Miller
On Sun, 2014-10-05 at 18:05 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > While the issue of IMAP v. POP has been widely commented, I have not > > seen comments in the thread about the Linux Mint update procedure > > outlined here: > > This is an Evolution list, not a Mint one, and we try to be as distro >

Re: [Evolution] Migrate data from 2.28,3 to 3.10.4

2014-10-04 Thread Alexander Miller
Ralf/Pete: I'll consider which route to go. I have some bias against having my mail semi-permanently stored elsewhere than on my own machine. I know that's not entirely logical in some respects but still ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-lis

Re: [Evolution] Migrate data from 2.28,3 to 3.10.4

2014-10-04 Thread Alexander Miller
Pete, thanks for your patience and very complete reply. I'll see if I can work my way through the details in the post you quoted. I'm just a user of the computer with very slight understanding of the hard & software structures; and I'm too long in the tooth / short in the mental stamina (capacity?

Re: [Evolution] Migrate data from 2.28,3 to 3.10.4

2014-10-03 Thread Alexander Miller
> First, make sure you backup your filesystem, don't just rely on the > backup created within Evolution. I guess you mean the Evolution files, not the entire filesystem? That would be just everything in ~/.local/share/evolution? Sorry, I'm a novice user so I need fairly detailed step-by-step help

Re: [Evolution] Migrate data from 2.28,3 to 3.10.4

2014-10-03 Thread Alexander Miller
On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 19:11 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 18:45 +0200, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 01.10.2014, 08:42 -0700 schrieb Alexander Miller: > > > > > > > > > I've searched the web and poste

[Evolution] Migrate data from 2.28,3 to 3.10.4

2014-10-01 Thread Alexander Miller
I've searched the web and posted on the Mint forum but haven't found an answer to my query. Upgrading from Mint 9 to Mint 17, I need to save the data from Evolution 2.28.3 and get it into the newer 3.10.4 but I believe the formats are different. I'm afraid the backup/restore functions may not wor

Re: [Evolution] Message List vs Kde

2014-09-24 Thread Alexander Miller
Selection bar looks exactly the same (dark blue) running Evolution 3.10.4 under Mint17 Mate. On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 12:04 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > The message list doesn't display properly under KDE. I've tried a > number of different themes, using KDE System Settings: > > KDE