On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 02:26, Andrew Tunney wrote: > Given that I have just re-installed Linux, thought I would share some > thoughts with the Evolution community & see if anyone can direct me to > the relative tools that may do the job a bit better than my efforts > achieved. > > 1) After backing up Evolution, I had to import all of the contacts that > I had exported to .vcf individually. This is a pain with a capital P, > surely there must be a method to import them all in one hit instead of > having to import one by one ?
Can't you just do 'select all' then 'save as ...' and put them all in one file? > 2) There must be a better way to export / import data from a backed up > Evolution rather than take all the folders & then import them again one > by one ? Yeah, tar. > This is apparently achievable in Netscape/Mozilla mail with no problems, > also Eudora, Outlook & several others on the M$ platform (as much as I > hate to admit it). > > I no programmer but surely someone in the Evolution development team can > devise a file format that is universal & of an open standard to back up > & restore mail easily ?!? _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
