Hi Pete, Thanks for the reply - I take your point! I'll try moving the Sent folder elsewhere as you suggest and see if that fixes the problem - great if it does. Andy On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 11:38, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 11:19 +0100, Andy Allen wrote: > > I'm desperately trying to upgrade from RedHat 9 to CentOS 4.4, but the > > one thing that's really causing me problems is migrating from Evolution > > 1.2.2 (bundled with RedHat 9) to 2.0.2 (bundled with CentOS 4.4. > > The reason you aren't getting much help is because these versions are > ancient. The people who knew about them worked for Ximian, then Ximian > was bought by Novel, and the people who worked on Evolution at the time > have since been deployed elsewhere. > > > > > When running Evolution 2.0.2 for the first time, with Evolution 1.2.2 > > folders and files in evolution folder in same partition, the automatic > > migration process starts up and seems to run OK, migrating all folders > > up to Sent folder successfully. Then disaster - it terminates fatally > > (error message "..quit unexpectedly..." - no indication of what the > > problem is). > > Try moving the Sent folder from ~/evolution and see if it upgrades > everything successfully. Once you have the bulk of the system in place > you can import the Sent folder later - it is just an mbox file afterall. > > > > > I've even thought about installing Evolution 1.2.2 in CentOS 4.4 > > (because it works OK for my purposes!), but there are too many problems > > with this - even though I have the Evolution 1.2.2 rpm, it won't install > > in CentOS because of missing packages. I really want to upgrade my main > > system to CentOS 4.4 for the improvements it offers over RedHat 9, but > > this email thing is a real sticking point at the moment. > > Why don't you upgrade to CentOS 5 ? > > P. > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list at gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list