From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 28 12:05:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 525D116A41F for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:05:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from piotr.smyrak@heron.pl) Received: from sys.heron.com.pl (sys.heron.com.pl [195.117.24.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4981543D45 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:05:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from piotr.smyrak@heron.pl) Received: from m231.c153.petrotel.pl ([217.28.153.231] helo=smyru.mshome.net) by sys.heron.com.pl with asmtp (Exim 4.23) id 1Dy73k-000Og2-6W for freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:00:20 +0200 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:05:47 +0200 From: Piotr Smyrak To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050728140547.0687652e@smyru.mshome.net> In-Reply-To: <42E8056D.9030501@FreeBSD.org> References: <1122499467.610.10.camel@localhost> <42E801E3.8020706@FreeBSD.org> <1122501163.610.16.camel@localhost> <42E8056D.9030501@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Upgrading GNOME X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:05:54 -0000 On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:06:37 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Frank Jahnke wrote: > | On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 14:51, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > |>| The upgrade is from Epiphany 1.4 to 2.2; Evolution is from > 1.0.6 to |>| 1.6.0. A simple-minded copying of the old files into > their original |>| locations showed that both Epiphany and > Evolution did not recognize |>| them. If there is a page > describing the upgrade I'd be happy to follow |>| it if a link is > provided. |> > |>You should never copy settings files. Instead, let the > applications |>themselves handle migration. Evolution, for > example, will migrate its |>own settings files. Copying files by > hand will only break things. | > | > | OK -- so what settings files do I delete to get this to work? > | Evolution's import facility, for example, did not recognize that > any | email files existed. I suspected that some of the index > files need to | be deleted, but before I do so I seek advice. > > No files should need to be deleted. Just restore your entire home > directory as it was under GNOME 2.4, and run each application. If > Evo is not recognizing the old files, you may be out of luck. Well, in such a case, I would suggest going back to the old Evolution and exporting the mailboxes and other information into some importable format like MBOX for mail, etc. Then get back to the new evo and import from them. HTH, -- Piotr Smyrak piotr.smyrak@heron.pl