On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 18:30 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 11/28/09, David McGuffey <davidmcguffey at verizon.net> wrote: > > Finally moved my home desktop from Fedora to CentOS. My spouse was > > unhappy with me upgrading from F9-->F10-->f11 etc and wanted something > > more stable. > > > > I built a second machine which is now running in parallel to the old F11 > > desktop. I moved my data (mail and files) from the F11 box to the > > CentOS 5.4 box. I used tar to move everything. Mail and files > > transferred A-OK...but the Evolution address book did not. > > > > Any tips on getting the old /home/.../.evolution/addressbook which > > worked with the version of Evolution on the new machine with an older > > version of Evolution? > <snip> > > If you have the Source RPMS for FC6, you can probably rebuild all the > Evolution packages you need to install Evolution, for CentOS 5.4. A > year or two ago, I used a 32 bit FC6 package, without rebuilding, but > now I know that's frowned upon, so better to rebuild for CentOS. > CentOS 5.x (and the upstream equivalent) is based upon FC6, if my > memory is correct. The question is whether or not the address book for > the new machine will work with an older version of Evolution. <snip> Maybe I should check to see if Evolution on F11 can export the db into something that Evolution on 5.4 can import. DaveM