I just tried to migrate my old KMail structure to KDE47 again last night. The last attempt resulted in a complete disaster of lost messages and parallel folder structures, and processes being run that completely took over the machine and made using it almost impossible. My methodology: 1) I logged out of KDE and restarted in Gnome 2) I renamed the .kde folder and copied the one from a non KDE47 machine from work that was working perfectly, which happened to have the same archive of mail as my home machine 3) I then logged out of Gnome and logged back in to KDE 4) There was an immediate message about migrating the address book that appeared to succeed after a few moments - Kontact was not running at this time 5) I started Kontact and got a message about the need to migrate my mail and did I want to do that - when I answered affirmatively, I got an almost instantaneous failure message 6) I then tried to run the kmail-migraror --interactive command - this resulted in an error to the effect that this had already been run and would not be run again 7) I then repeated steps 1-4 but, instead of then starting Kontact, I ran the migrator first from a command line 8) This resulted in a lot of activity with a message log box indicating that the process was running, and then, after a few moments, apparent success 9) However, when I then opened Kontact, KMail was still a mess - this time, I ended up with two "KMail folders" trees, with one having my old folder structure from "Local folders" apparently migrated, but many folders were not populated with messages, and a second "KMail folders" tree with only my InBox and Sent Messages boxes which both had a lot of messages in them 10) I noticed however that there was a lot of hard drive activity and the messages count in the truncated "KMail folders" tree was changing, going down, actually - so, I just let things run overnight 11) This morning, the hard drive activity has stopped, and KMail is responsive, but, there are still two "KMail folders" trees, with a lot of messages remaining still in the truncated tree; "Local folders" is nowhere to be seen 12) The second "Kmail folders" tree, the one with all my migrated sub-folders, now has a lot of messages in each of the folders Unlike the last attempt, my computer is not bogged down, but top shows several migration processes running - they look like this: "8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1" there are a number of these running with different numbers after the slash Also, resulting from the command line invocation of the kmail-migrator command, I got tons of these: "/usr/bin/kmail-migrator(31365)" Soprano: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server'" Conclusion: things are looking up, but, there are still significant problems -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
