[kdepim-users] How actually to migrate?

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Sonntag, 21. April 2013 schrieb O. Sinclair:
> On 20/04/2013 19:43, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 20. April 2013 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> >> Am Donnerstag, 18. April 2013 schrieb O. Sinclair:
> >>> On 17/04/2013 10:42, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > […]
> > 
> >> I was about to try to migrate again to KDEPIM 2 as of 4.10.2
> >> today. But after some tries with the migrator I was sooo puzzled
> >> as on how to migrate, I just gave up again. I redid my BTRFS
> >> filesystem before and maybe it was just too much for one day, but
> >> still I found: I do not know in what way to migrate.
> >> 
> >> 1) Use the migrator? But then it uses a mixedmaildir resource and
> >> folder order is strange.
> >> 
> >> 2) Use one maildir resource and let it synchronize with my
> >> ~/Mail?
> >> 
> >> 3) Use one maildir resource per account and let each one
> >> synchronize with the account maildir?
> >> 
> >> 4) Or is this synchronization triggering with existing maildirs
> >> from KMail 1 completely way off, and I better import those
> >> maildirs into an existing "Local Folders" resource of KMail 2?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> That said on each try to migrate and I got such many pop ups
> >> about invalid folder settings and on calenders also missing kcal
> >> entries and what not, that I do not feel too confident. And this
> >> time the Akonadi and Nepomuk stuff has been on an Ext4
> >> filesystem.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I am willing to try again, but I really like to have a plan, a
> >> clear picture on how the migration is going to work. I didn´t
> >> found any clear instruction on userbase.kde.org.
> > 
> > Well there is something on:
> > 
> > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/OneiricOcelot/Final/Kubuntu/Kmail2
> > 
> > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/KDEPIM-4.7_upgrade
> > 
> > 
> > I get more and more the impression, that I better import my old
> > mails from the KMail ~/Mail folder than to have maildir resource
> > synchronize with it directly. I thought the maildir resource would
> > work if I made sure that no mbox files are left in the ~/Mail
> > folder. I made sure about that. But maybe there are other subtile
> > differences that might cause data loss?
> 
> Well, as far as I can now remember (this was some years ago) I moved
> my maildir directories to a separate location, started with a fresh
> (as in empty) KMail installation, recreated my accounts and imported
> my mail folders using the KMail importer. Had very problems, this was
> actually how Kubuntu recommended you do it back then as the migrator
> had known problems.
> 
> Had to recreate filters and so on but all in all no big (bug) issues.
> 
> So yes, I recommend that as it worked for me and gave few problems.
> Nothing near what you seem to get when you try the methods you outline.

Well, I think I will try that way, cause the other way of creating maildir 
resources and point them to old KMail 1 maildirs, which may still be 
special, although I moved all mbox files in it to elsewhere, may have created 
subtile issues.

The import way I can be sure I have real KMail 2 / Akonadi maildirs.

Did you redo *all* the filter rules? I imported them last time which seemed 
to work quite fine. But maybe there have been issues with that as well…

I´d love to be able to just have it upgrade seamlessly.

This is anything else than seamless right now.

I wonder what the casual user would be doing with this.

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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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