Re: Upgrades



On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 08:46 -0400, John Dangler wrote:
I just completed the install of Dapper on my workstations (from Breezy).
I saved my home directory, and I need to restore my addressbook for
evolution. Can I just copy the backed up addressbook subdir into the
new directory structure, or do I need to copy it to a tmp structure and
import them?
Doesn't the upgrade see your old evolution data? Or is breezy using a
different home dir?

To back up and save everything evolution related see here:
https://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/12/03/how-to-backup-evolution/

... so you could do that on your old home and put it into the new one.

Duncan
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