migration destroyed my distribution lists
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 19:22:12 UTC 2010
Tim Wunder (Lists) wrote:
> On 02/18/2010 12:59 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Thursday 18 February 2010 15:54:39 Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>> The old lists will not be migrated in a workable fashion, as the
>>>> mechanism is not the same.
>>>
>>> Ugh, that is really broken! The last time the distribution list
>>> mechanism changed, they provided a migration tool to do the conversion.
>>> But this time they even HAVE a migration tool (the Akonadi migration
>>> tool) and didn't make it convert things properly? This kind of disregard
>>> to user data (and configuration is data) really needs to stop (it's not
>>> the first time a KDE app just ignores configuration from older versions,
>>> unfortunately).
>>>
>> No data is lost. Additional functionality will come as soon as possible.
>> You can still filter entries, of course, since I would assume that all
>> contacts in a ML will have common data somewhere.
>>
>
> I'm confused. You say 'no data is lost' right after telling Neal he has
> to rebuild his distribution list. Doesn't a distribution list count as
> data?
>
> Tim
And let's not forget, that Neal still Can't rebuild it, because the 'new
group' button seems to be grayed out.
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