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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