Upgrading GNOME

Piotr Smyrak piotr.smyrak at heron.pl
Thu Jul 28 12:05:54 GMT 2005


On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:06:37 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke
<marcus at FreeBSD.org>  wrote:

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> Frank Jahnke wrote:
> | On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 14:51, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> |>| The upgrade is from Epiphany 1.4 to 2.2; Evolution is from
> 1.0.6 to |>| 1.6.0.  A simple-minded copying of the old files into
> their original |>| locations showed that both Epiphany and
> Evolution did not recognize |>| them.  If there is a page
> describing the upgrade I'd be happy to follow |>| it if a link is
> provided. |>
> |>You should never copy settings files.  Instead, let the
> applications |>themselves handle migration.  Evolution, for
> example, will migrate its |>own settings files.  Copying files by
> hand will only break things. |
> |
> | OK -- so what settings files do I delete to get this to work?
> | Evolution's import facility, for example, did not recognize that
> any | email files existed.  I suspected that some of the index
> files need to | be deleted, but before I do so I seek advice.
> 
> No files should need to be deleted.  Just restore your entire home
> directory as it was under GNOME 2.4, and run each application.  If
> Evo is not recognizing the old files, you may be out of luck.

Well, in such a case, I would suggest going back to the old
Evolution and exporting the mailboxes and other information into
some importable format like MBOX for mail, etc. Then get back to the
new evo and import from them. 

HTH,
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 Piotr Smyrak
 piotr.smyrak at heron.pl


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