On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 23:45, Thinker wrote: > Hello All, > > About a month ago I backed up my evolution folder in my home directory > onto a CDR. I have since reinstalled SuSE 8.2 on my machine and I would > like to copy my old email messages from that CDR onto my newly installed > and functioning evolution. > > What is the best way to do this. > > > Thanks > > -=Thinker
There is probably an easier way, but what I do is copy the backup folders (evolution/local/Inbox/subfolders/whatever?) to a temp directory in my new installation. Within the temp directory I change whatever permissions are needed, usually added user write permission to the all mbox folders. Then copy the backed up Inbox subfolders from temp to home/user/evolution/local/Inbox/subfolders. Typically I complete this step immediately after reinstalling the distro and having setup evolution but before the new evolution setup has retrieved any new mail. I typically also copy over all the setup and config files so that the new install of evolution starts where the old install left off. Since you have already a running copy of evolution, you may want to setup a new subfolder in your Inbox (i.e. old_mail) and copy your backup mail into "old_mail". Then you could manually merge/sync your old and new mail into whatever subfolders that you wanted. HTH -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01 _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
