Reverting evolution to Fedora 14

[Gilboa Davara]

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