On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 09:09 -0400, William Farmer wrote: 
> I only have one instance of evolution and one dev box. The old
> Inbox/Outbox files are backed up and I have no way of opening them up in
> evolution right now. They won't import. Yet, they weren't changed during
> the upgrade to 12.04 (I checked modification dates).

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STOP REFERENCING *UBUNTU* RELEASE NUMBERS. THESE
MEAN NOTHING WHAT-SO-EVER.  State the version of *Evolution*.  I have NO
CLUE what version of Evolution ships with whatever 12.04 is, or what
shipped in whatever their previous release.

awilliam@linux-nysu:~> rpm -q evolution
evolution-3.2.3-2.5.1.x86_64

[Ubuntu's package management tools has some equivalent to the "rpm"
command but they change it every other week (apt, dpkg, whatever...).
Or Evolution's Help -> About will tell you.]

If the version jump was large it moves the data to another location [XDG
compliant now] so the old folders will not be updated / modified.  The
timestamps won't change.


> I can't drag and drop messages if I can't open evolution with the old
> Inbox/Outbox files.

If you add a new MBOX type account pointing to the old folders you may
be able to access and move the messages to your new local Inbox.

> Evolution does work now, but I only have the emails that were sent to me
> after the upgrade.

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