FC3 and Evolution 2

[Paul Howarth]

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.

To get Evolution to import your Evo 1.4.x settings:

1. Make sure you have the gconf-editor RPM installed.
2. See http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-
September/msg01472.html

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>