[Users] config downgrade

Andrej Kacian ticho at claws-mail.org
Sun Oct 21 14:09:06 CEST 2018


On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 13:34:41 +0200
c.buhtz at posteo.jp wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was using Claws-mail 3.17 on Debian unstable for a long time.
> 
> No I switch to Debian stable which is using Claws-mail 3.14 - what is
> no problem for me.
> 
> When starting Claws I get the message about the config version and a
> link to here
> https://www.claws-mail.org/cvc.php
> 
> Claws then work without errors. I think it is no problem there.
> 
> I assumed that Claws 3.14 will store the config data automaticly in its
> own version. But it doesn't.
> Restarting Claws again the warning message about the config version
> appears again.
> 
> I don't understand that link
> https://www.claws-mail.org/cvc.php
> 
> There are 3 versions mentioned. I don't know which "config version" is
> used in 3.17 and 3.14. So what can I do now?

You are right, we need to put more information on that page. For now,
3.17 has config_version 3, and 3.14 has config_version 2, so you need
to manually downgrade your configuration from 3 to 2, using the
instructions in the last section of that page.

Regards,
-- 
Andrej



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