Import data from Evolution 1.4.x into Evolution 2.0.x

[Carlos Perelló Marín]

On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 10:56 +0100, re2824 at SAFe-mail.net wrote:
>  Hi all.
> 

Hi

> Firstly, thank you for a great distro! Now for the problem...
> 
> I have a tarball of my old ~/evolution folder containing all my old mail/calendar/contacts/settings etc. I also have a working installation of Evolution 2.0.1, but there are so many individual files in the old backup that I'd rather not import them on a "one-by-one" basis.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to get everything over in one go? I've read (somewhere) that installing 2.0.x over 1.4.x automatically imports everything, but it hasn't happened for me, and I can't work out how to start this process off manually.


Just put it uncompressed at ~/evolution evolution 2.0 should detect it's
not yet imported and will do it for you automatically, when the import
is over, you can remove it without problems.

Cheers.

> Many thanks,
> 
> Jaime
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Carlos Perelló Marín
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