Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Migrate Evolution Data from 8.04 to 8.10 Ubuntu Desktop

Intro
I am installing 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10 on Dell Vostro 220s. Everything is going "smoothly" so far. However, when I tried to migrate my email data by restoring Evolution backup, Evolution cannot start after import.

Fix
I found a simple fix for it on the net:
  1. Delete everything in your ~/.evolution folder (/home/yourloginname/.evolution)
  2. Start Evolution and import Evolution data by click on File->Restore Settings, un-check the option to start Evolution after restore.
  3. When restore is finished, temporarily rename ~/.evolution to ~/.evolution.bak
  4. Now start Evolution. It will re-create a new ~/.evolution folder and open with empty mail data. Close it.
  5. Delete ~/.evolution folder, and rename ~/.evolution.bak to ~./evolution
  6. Start Evolution again, it should work and find the data you imported.
Deleting files and renaming folders can easily be done from Nautilus (click on Places->Home Folder). Select an option to Show Hidden Files (in Nautilus click on View->Show Hidden Files, or CTRL-H) .

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