FC14 -> FC20 & Evolution

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 20:55 -0400, Charlie McVeigh wrote:
> Okay, I have to admit I gave been lazy and have fallen far behind the
> the curve on Fedora releases.  I am currently running FC14 and I want to
> upgrade to FC20.  My question for the board is as follows:
> 
> Since I am so far behind the current release of Fedora will I have any
> trouble restoring a backup of my Evolution files to FC20 Evolution once
> I upgrade?   I have searched the web for advice on this but I can't find
> any information that answers this question.
> 
> I am concerned that I am making too big of a leap in Evolution versions
> and need to consider an intermediate step of upgrading to FC16 or FC17,
> restoring my Evolution data and backing it up again to make the leap to
> FC20.
> 
> Currently running FC14 & Evolution 2.32.3

I would strongly advise checking the Evolution mailing list archives
(https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list) where there has
been recent discussion of this. 2.32 is a really old version and data
formats have changed substantially. That said, a lot depends on your
account setup. If you keep everything on IMAP it will be a lot less
painful.

poc