[GRLUG] Can't upgrade to Fedora 17

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 05:55 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote: 
> Update: I was able to complete the upgrade from the Fedora 17 live cd. A
> real hassle, though, needing to do a fresh install. Evolution in
> particular is a pain. After restoring my home directory, I opened
> Evolution, which then proceeded, as nearly as I can tell, with
> overwriting my old Evo data in .local/share/evolution. So I had to
> re-copy all of that manually. A real pain, particularly when Evo didn't
> want to recognize my calendar and contacts. I finally got it to
> recognize the calendar stuff by using the Import Individual File option,
> selecting the calendar.ics that was already in ...evolution/calendar. 

> Does anyone know what I can do to get my contacts re-installed? I think
> maybe Evo switched from some other DB format to SQLite. But how do I
> convert the old addressbook.db?

Yes, Evolution changed quite some time ago to use the XDG spec for
storing data.  It (along with everyone else) also left BDB in favor of
SQLite.
<http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.2/data-storage.html.en>

But an upgrade does not overwrite data, as the data gets recreates in a
different place.  The evolution@ list is probably a good place to ask.
<https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list>
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