Import data from Evolution 1.4.x into Evolution 2.0.x - SUCCESS!

[Jaime]

On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 00:55 +0200, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> There is a way that requires you to set two gconf-keys to 1.4 and then
> restart evolution. It will force a migrate. You should be able to
> google for it
> 
> On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 21:52:33 +0100, Jaime <re2824 at safe-mail.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 12:40 +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > This doesn't work for me, unfortunately. I've tried:
> > 
> > a) killall any evo* processes
> > b) rm -r ~/.evolution
> > c) Put old contents into ~/evolution
> > d) Reboot and start evolution.
> > 
> > Still nothing. Do you know if this only works if you have a previous
> > version installed beforehand (I didn't, as I put Ubuntu onto a clean
> > partition, so I started with Evo 2.0.0). Should I file a bug report?
> > 
> > Thank you, Jaime
> > 

Thanks Erik. After much gnashing of teeth, I found some pointers at:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-September/msg00861.html
and I've now successfully imported all my old stuff.

For what it's worth, the relevant gconf key appears to be:
/apps/evolution/version
Setting this to "1.4.6" and then starting evolution will trigger an
import from ~/evolution into ~/.evolution.

Hope this helps someone else,

Jaime :-)