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import evolution files

Asked by GeorgeBass

I wanted to upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04. I copied my home folder to a flash drive before starting. The upgrade did not work. I loaded Ubuntu 9.04 with a clean install. Evolution will not recognize or import the .evolution folder I saved on the flash drive. Any way to overcome this?

Thanks,
George

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Best Marcelo Filgueira (mrfilgueira) said : 		#1

Hello George,

This could be related with permissions. When you copied your home folder to the flash drive, did you used a tar file? Usually flash drives are formatted in FAT16 or FAT32 filesystems which does not support owner attributes as Linux filesystems like ext3 does.
Try to change permissions to the evolution folder like this:

chown -R 600 "$USERNAME". ~/.evolution/

This should change your evolution's folder permissions to read and write for your user. If this does not help, please try to post a more detailed description of the procedure you did.

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GeorgeBass (georgemarge1) said : 		#2

Thanks Marcelo Filgueira, that solved my question.

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GeorgeBass (georgemarge1) said : 		#3

    I did not backup my old evolution files in the recommended way- I just copied everything to the flash drive un-compressed, un-archived.

    I found that the permissions on the folders and files on the new install of evolution had to be changed to allow read/write. I was able to recover everything by copying the files (not folders) from the flash drive.

    Your answer was correct! Thank you.

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kanub (gwd0fqy02) said : 		#4

same issue here, however i only get the contacts, tasks, memos etc. from "personal". all others are missing.

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kanub (gwd0fqy02) said : 		#5

ok, solved it. something like the following worked for me:

1. terminate evolution
2. copy ~/.evolution
3. copy ~/.gconf/apps/evolution too!
4. restart computer