Evolution does not recognise configuration from an older installation
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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evolution (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: evolution
I was reinstalling my workstation ("machine A") where I had been using ubuntu 9.04 (64-bit) and Evolution as a mail client with locally stored files. To prevent loss of my files (including emails) I copied the entire directory
/home/konopka/
onto other machine ("B"). I similarly copied also the entire directory
/home/konopka/
onto the corresponding path on the machine B.
Then I was normally able to use Evolution on machine B, without any need to configure my email account. In the meantime I formatted the entire disk of machine A and installed ubuntu 10.04 (lucid), 64-bit version on it.
Finally I copied back the entire /home/konopka/
Then I started Evolution on the freshly installed machine A but it was unable to recognise the existing and fully configured email account. It was simply trying to create a new configuration and I am almost sure that __it would delete__ my existing stored emails (on machine A) !
To complete my report, the machine B has a LinuxMint Helena 64-bit installed on it (it is based on ubuntu 9.10).
And I add that I (user konopka) am member of the users group (I deleted the default group konopka) on machine A. I carefully checked to ensure that every my file and directory has correct ownership:
$ cd /home
$ sudo chown -R konopka:users konopka
Each of my direcory has permission at least
drwx------
and each file within relevant directories has permission at least
-rw-------
To prevent any doubt about the data transfers between machines A and B, I must say I used rsync -avz command.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: evolution 2.28.3-0ubuntu10
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 12 15:46:31 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
why you didn't backup evolution with the tools it provides to do that?