Reverting evolution to Fedora 14

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 21:44 +0100, N James Bridge wrote:
>> I have also had a major problem with evolution in Fedora 15. I had made
>> a backup archive using evolution 2.32.2 in F14. F15 installs evolution
>> 3.0 - and it worked fine until I tried to restore from the archive. That
>> seemed to work (including converting the database to a maildir format)
>> but then the program just hung indefinitely when trying to fetch mail.
>> Curiously, even if I turned off the send/receive function, there was one
>> folder which would not open, though all the others worked normally. (The
>> folder contained all the mail from this list!)
>>
>> I have temporarily reverted to F14, where evolution 2.32 restored from
>> the archive without a hitch, and am now copying and pasting all the
>> emails I want saved into text files. Tedious, to say the least. Then I
>> can go back to F15 and start evolution with a clean sheet.
>
> I seem to have managed to solve the problem (knock wood) under F15 - at
> least for now:
> I backed-up all my important evolution files and user configurations
> (~/.local/share/evolution, .bash*, .ssh, *.*gdb*, etc) and cleared all
> the ~/.XXX files and directories - including the ~/.config/ and
> ~/.local.
> Once I was done, I everything from scratch, including evolution (this
> time under KDE 4.6).
>
> As far as I can see, evolution is now working. (This was sent from
> evolution under F15/KDE).
> Hopefully I won't have to follow your footsteps and import/export my 700
> +MB evolution DB back to Fedora 14.
>
> - Gilboa

P.S. It still crashing from time to time, I'm still trying to figure
out what triggers the crash...

- Gilboa