[ale] Evolution Migration 1.4 -> 2.02

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 22:22 +0000, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> That REALLY blows.  My previous Evolution instance must have tens of
> thousands of messages in it (thanks, ALE!).  At least I can just keep
> the old Evo folder around and grep/regexp through it.  
> 
> I'm also concerned that Evo has gone to this one-file-holds-all-messages
> thing as opposed to how it used to be, when you could change it to
> one-file-per-message.  Mozilla mail burned me before because it did that
> and file corruption destroyed countless messages - in fact, that's what
> got me to try Evo in the first place.  
> 
> Time to thumb nose at Evo and use something more sensible?

I'm thinking about it. That said, it is posible to slurp over all the
old mail ino the new evolution. You have to create new folders first
than import a single file at a time. It brings it over perfectly intact
but it will take a while on the bigger mbox files as it goes in and
builds the index files from scratch.

Evo, fortunately, has not gone to the one-file-for-all crap. I have a
floobazillion folders and filters that auto sort my email. I still have
them all. They are still in the same ~/.evolution/ directory as before.
But the old one had the local directory that had everything and the new
one has a mail/local setup. I did not try just copying the structure and
mbox files from the old local to the new mail/local. That might have
actually worked (NOW I think about doing it ?!?!?!).

The big thing that is _still_ missing is an intelligent way move the
filters around to adjust their order. New filters go to the bottom of
the list. That is bad. That's where all the old PLONK filters are ( I
can keep a virtual grudge indefinitely!). So I have to move the new
filter up ONE LINE PER KEY PRESS!!! 

As soon as the Mozilla Sunbird calendar is a bit better...

And syncs with my Zaurus/Palm/new gizmo...
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 21:46 -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 02:03 +0000, hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
> > > The Evolution docs that I've seen don't cover this seemingly straightforward operation:  moving folders and messages from a 1.4 instance of Evolution to a 2.02 version.  Simply doing an initial run of Evo to set the basic mail parameters and flying in the old ~/evolution folder in place of the one that gets created does not work, nor does it work to compy the old one into the new one.  Evo's import functions don't seem to deal with this either.  What to do?
> > > 
> > > Jeff
> > It is truly a PIA. The _ONLY_ way to migrate that works is to import
> > each individual mail file one at a time. I have about 35 different mail
> > folders. It was no fun. I guess they go too busy sleeping with $Novell$
> > to be bothered with making a good upgrade path.
> > 
> > Oh, yeah. Doing an upgrade of the entire OS to a new one with evo2.x
> > won't do it either.
> > 
> > *&&%^ (*&&^ 1.5G email *%&^ )^@^ !!
> > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Ale mailing list
> > > Ale at ale.org
> > > http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> > > 
> > > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Ale mailing list
> > Ale at ale.org
> > http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> 
> !DSPAM:41fdab3983197382877123!
-- 
James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./
http://www.localnetsolutions.com

GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part