FC3 and Evolution 2

David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com
Wed Nov 17 01:10:49 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 02:00 -0500, Pankaj Jain wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 18:39, Clifford Snow wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 11:17, pankaj wrote:
> > > Firstly, i'd like to thank everyone working on FC3.  It's a great
> > > release so far and upgrading my IBM thinkpad T40 from FC2 to FC3 was
> > > pretty clean.  Only problem I found was that my OpenOffice RPMs weren't
> > > upgraded to the FC3 ones and evolution 2.0 didn't pull all my data from
> > > my evolution 1.4 directory.  None of my contacts, calendars or email
> > > came over.
> 
> That's exactly what I saw happen when I downloaded some evolution 2.0 RPMS 
> for FC2 and installed them on my work PC.  However, on my upgrade from FC2 
> to FC3, this didn't happen.  I even tried to force it by removing the .evolution 
> directory and relaunching evolution, hoping it would read my evolution directory and 
> import everything but to no avail.  That's the only reason I'm holding off on 
> upgrading my home PC from FC2 to FC3.  If anyone has any other thoughts, i'm all ears.  
> Otherwise, I guess I'll need to file bugzilla report.

BTW, had you ever run test versions of Evolution 1.5.* as the same user
as the one doing the migration?  That might have broken things (it
stores values in GConf which are used when deciding if it needs to
migrate any data)

> 
> Thanks
> Pankaj
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