Evolution cannot migrate user data to new machine
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| evolution (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: evolution
This is a serious limitation in upstream Evolution - when migrating my homedir from a laptop to another, or using a shared homedir over the network on different workstations.
This seems to be caused by Evolution's use of gconf for storage.
To repro:
- as root, create users user_a and user_b
- login as user_a, open evo, create a profile, add some calendar entries, addressbook entries, configure an email server, fetch some emails
- logout
- as root, copy ~user_a/.evolution to ~user_b/.evolution
- as root, chown -R user_b.user_b ~user_b/.evolution
- login as user_b
- open evolution
= Expected: pop/imap settings copied over, calendar entries, etc.
There is a hackish procedure reported here http://
For bonus points, make user_a and user_b on separate computers with different endian-ness (ppc?). According to this thread http://
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in evolution: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Invalid |
Thanks for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report as such. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. http://