[wellylug] Moving Evolution Emails

[jamie]

I've done this many times. Main thing is to tar and zip the
whole .evolution directory. 

Put that somewhere safe and then once Feisty's up rm -rf .evolution on
the new install and then untar and unzip the backed up .evolution file.
It should be ok. And if it's not you've backed up the old one, so if
worst comes to worst untar etc the backed up file into a directory
called evolution-backup and then import each of the mbox files (i.e the
large file size ones)

jamie

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 13:30 +1200, Jeff Hunt wrote:

> I want to do a clean install into a new machine of my work files. I'm
> moving from Dapper to Feisty. This is comparatively easy except for my
> copious emails and contacts. (I have one of each and feel a need to
> boast).
> 
> The import function is well covered but how do I export stuff first?
> If I simply copy key files from my personal .evolution  folder am I
> going to damage the new installation of Evolution?
> I found the inbox file but if I simply copy it into the new Evolution
> will it work faultlessly? 
> 
> And why is it so darn hard to get info on such an important and basic
> process as backing up and moving email files? One of the reasons I use
> Linux is the emotional damage that was done to me when I attempted to
> find and move Outlook files. 
> 
> Oh and if anyone knows the meaning of life I'll have that too please.
> 
> Cheers.
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