moving evo f7 -> f8?

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 08:51:53 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 18:48 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 12:52 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 08:21 +0000, Morgan Read wrote:
> > > Hello Folks
> > > 
> > > I just up'd from f7 to f8.  I copied files/directories:
> > >    1. ~/.evolution/
> > >    2. ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/
> > >    3. ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution
> > > 
> > > Then logged into my user account, copied them back.
> > > 
> > > Now, I start evo for the first time and I'm presented with the Evo Setup
> > > Assistant.  Any ideas where I'm going wrong?  How do I get evo back up?
> > > 
> > > Many thanks,
> > > M.
> > > 
> > 
> > A short tip:
> > I usually keep my /home on a different partition - sharing it across
> > distribution (CentOS/RHEL/Fedora) and versions (F7/F8, etc)
> > 
> > - Gilboa
> > 
> 
> Did you shutdown evolution before you did the copy on both machines?
> evolution --force-shutdown
> -- 

Nope... nothing.
Just rebooted my F7; installed a fresh copy of F8; start evolution.

- Gilboa




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