Thanks. The subfolders also recovered and all emails are there! But the deleted mails are not in 'Trash' folder. They are still in the folders before deletion. This should not be a big problem for me, though.
On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 09:21 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: > On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 08:24 +0800, Fayer Michael wrote: > > I need to transfer all my emails from one laptop (Ubuntu 11.10) to > > another (Ubuntu 10.04). > > > > On the 11.10 laptop, Evolution is 3.2.1 with new email format. I forget > > the format name when I was asked to convert. The name seems to be ~6 > > letters long. Hundreds of files are in folder > > '/home/xxx/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/cur'. They have similar > > names. One of them is '1317082821.2435_1.roro:2,S' with size 9.6 MB. > > > > On the 10.04 laptop, Evo is 2.28.3 which came with Ubuntu and no > > settings were changed. So the format should be mbox (?). > > Hi, > it's called Maildir. If you are interested in restore of On This > Computer/... mails only, then get the folder under > ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local > and copy it somewhere under your "old" computer, say under > /tmp/local > Then in Evolution Edit->Preferences->Mail Accounts->Add, select server > type which has in its name "Maildir" and point to > /tmp/local > finish the assistant and then you should see a new subtree in the folder > tree on the left in the Mail view. There should be your mails, thus just > drag&drop them under On This Computer. I'm not sure now, but maybe > it'll not read all subfolders, as that format also changed slightly with > compare of 2.28, thus for missing subfolders change the account to point > to a folder which has as subfolders those tmp/new/cur folders. Note the > folders begin with a dot. > > Note I call the computer "old", because it's older version of the system > and Evolution itself. Also, as you may notice already, the backup tar.gz > file contains those files too, so you can extract them manually. > > > I used the menu 'Back up Evolution Data...' in Evo 3.2.1 to create a > > '*.tar.gz' file. But Evo 2.28.3 failed to read it using menu 'Restore > > Settings...'. The error was 'Please select a valid backup file to > > restore'. And I couldn't find other ways to transfer. > > It makes sense, I think :) > Bye, > Milan > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
