migration destroyed my distribution lists

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On Thursday 18 February 2010 19:22:12 Neal Becker wrote:
> Tim Wunder (Lists) wrote:
> > On 02/18/2010 12:59 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> On Thursday 18 February 2010 15:54:39 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >>> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>>> The old lists will not be migrated in a workable fashion, as the
> >>>> mechanism is not the same.
> >>> 
> >>> Ugh, that is really broken! The last time the distribution list
> >>> mechanism changed, they provided a migration tool to do the conversion.
> >>> But this time they even HAVE a migration tool (the Akonadi migration
> >>> tool) and didn't make it convert things properly? This kind of
> >>> disregard to user data (and configuration is data) really needs to
> >>> stop (it's not the first time a KDE app just ignores configuration
> >>> from older versions, unfortunately).
> >> 
> >> No data is lost.  Additional functionality will come as soon as
> >> possible.
> >> 
> >>  You can still filter entries, of course, since I would assume that all
> >> 
> >> contacts in a ML will have common data somewhere.
> > 
> > I'm confused. You say 'no data is lost' right after telling Neal he has
> > to rebuild his distribution list. Doesn't a distribution list count as
> > data?
> > 
> > Tim
> 
> And let's not forget, that Neal still Can't rebuild it, because the 'new
> group' button seems to be grayed out.
> 
The Neal had better find out what's wrong with his installation, because it 
should not be grayed out, and isn't in a properly working system.

I have spent many hours gathering and writing up information to help with 
these issues, only to find that many people will not take the time to use the 
pages to find their problems.

Anne
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