Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 19:30 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:14:58 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> > But the only really annoying thing is, that I had to reboot Ubuntu
> > Natty, because I wasn't able to adopt the Evolution files for Debian's
> > Evolution.
> >
> > Perhaps somebody knows what to do:
> >
> > After copying
> > # cp
> > -pr /media/natty/home/spinymouse/.local/share/evolution
> > /home/spinymouse/.local/share # cp
> > -pr /media/natty/home/spinymouse/.gnome2/accels/evolution
> > /home/spinymouse/.gnome2/accels Evolution started with a manager to set
> > up Evolution AND TO IMPORT FILES, so I deleted what I copied before.
> > Unfortunately there was no option to import files, Evolution tried to
> > force me to set up a new account. This is completely idiotic, because it
> > should be possible to simply copy the files for equal versions of
> > Evolution, from one to another install.
>
> Agree with every word.
>
> > Does anybody know how to import account settings and emails, resp. what
> > files I need to copy?
>
> Well, I hit the same wall and, after spending couple of days researching
> and getting some advice from this newsgroup, succeeded to import
> everything. I documented the procedure for myself for the future. You
> might find it not the best, but this is the only way I found. Here is the
> copy from my file.
>
> 1. Restore e-mail account settings.
> -----------------------------------
>
> - Run Evolution for the first time and create a default e-mail account.
> Evolution would create a tree of file and folders in home/
> <username>/.gconf/apps/evolution directory. These would contain initial
> Evolution settings.
>
> - Close Evolution.
>
> - From terminal execute `ps ux | grep evolution` to see what Evolution
> related processes are runing. Kill all of them.
>
> - Overwrite the content of /home/<username>/.evolution/mail/ folder with
> the content from the corresponding backup folder. This would bring all
> your e-mails contained in their corresponding subfolders.
>
> - From backup /home/<username>/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml file
> copy content of all <li type="string"> *** </li> entries between <entry
> name="accounts" mtime="1305671823" type="list" ltype="string"> and its
> final </entry> tag to the newly generated /home/<username>/.gconf/apps/
> evolution/mail/%gconf.xml file. For best result restart computer before
> starting Evolution.
>
> This would restore all your e-mail account settings. It's helpful if you
> have multiple accounts.
>
> 2. Import Calendars.
> --------------------
>
> - Start Evolution
>
> - If you had multiple calendars in Evolution recreate empty calendars
> with the names you want (probably the same names you get used to).
>
> - Use File->Import menu option in Evolution to import corresponding
> calendar.ics files one at a time.
>
> To ensure good results restart a computer.
>
> 3. Import Tasks.
> ----------------
>
> To import tasks into Evolution follow steps in pp.2 and import wanted
> tasks.ics files one at a time.
>
> 4. Import Address Book(s).
> --------------------------
>
> - Start Evolution
>
> - Create empty Personal (exists by default), and any other address books
> you might have in Evolution.
>
> - Use File->Import menu option in Evolution to import corresponding
> address book files from backup (see below).
>
> NOTE: The address books can be exported for the backup purposes by
> executing the following commands:
>
> /usr/lib/evolution/2.30/evolution-addressbook-export --output=/
> full_path_to_file/file_name.vcad (or csv format supported as well)
>
> Unfortunatelly it seems that the format:
>
> evolution-addressbook-export --output=OUTPUTFILE ADDRESSBOOK_NAME is not
> supported. At least it always failed on me with an error
> "addressbook_name" not found. To export multiple addressbooks you'll need
> to open evolution and to set one of them you want to export as a default
> addressbook, then execute the command above. Then set as the default the
> next addressbook and run the command again.
>
> This worked for me, I hope it will work for you too.
Yes, thank you very much, your howto needed a little upgrade.
Restore e-mail account settings.
--------------------------------
- Run Evolution for the first time and create a default e-mail account.
- Close Evolution.
- From terminal execute `ps ux | grep evolution` to see what Evolution
related processes are runing. Kill all of them.
- Overwrite the content of /home/<useraccount>/.evolution/mail/ folder
with the content from the corresponding original folder.
For Ubuntu Natty and Debian stable it's not ~/.evolution anymore!
# cp
-pr /<mount>/home/<useraccount>/.local/share/evolution/mail /home/<useraccount>/.local/share/evolution
- From original /home/<useraccount>/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%
gconf.xml file
copy content of all <li type="string"> *** </li> entries between <entry
name="accounts" mtime="1305671823" type="list" ltype="string"> and its
final </entry> tag to the newly
generated /home/<useraccount>/.gconf/apps/
evolution/mail/%gconf.xml file. For best result restart computer before
starting Evolution.
If the accountname would differ or one Evolution still does use
~/.evolution, than you've got a lot to edit. I run
# cp -p /media/natty/home/spinymouse/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%
gconf.xml /home/spinymouse/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml
OTOH it should be possible to use 1 partition for the emails and to get
access by Evolution from different installs, assumed that the mount
points do have the same path names, but I didn't really verified
this ;).
Just doing this all filters get lost, there was a message regarding to
junk, mails that should not be shown by threads are shown by threads,
anyway, I got the mails.
Regards,
Ralf
PS: Sending from the 'new' Evolution.
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