On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 09:39, komal wrote: > > the fact is nearly all of my mails in outlook + the address book > contacts are really important to me and I never did really want to loose > them (in case a format had to occur).so what I did in windows was that I > made some registry key changes so that outlook had its folders and address > book in another drive (d:\ in my case).ergo ny problems occurred, formatting > my c:\ didn't make ny problems coz all my mails were another drive. > > > > now I cant take the risk of putting all my mails into my root ext3 > partition just to use evolution coz in case I have to change my distro all > my mails would have to go.....when it came to importing mails kmailcvt was > successful to an extend .it was able to import all my outlook 6 mails to a > kmail folder and from there I could make evolution import all the mail > folders to its folder-the path of which I didn't know but I knew it was in > the ext3 root partition. > > > > now my question is can I make evolution import all my mails from > outlook 6 to some folder outside the ext3 partition (say for e.g. a FAT32 > partition e:\) and then make evolution point to that folder location always > so that in case I have to format my root ext3 partition I will not loose my > mails and next time I install evolution I can make it point to this location > and then retrieve my earlier mails (this applies to my outlook to evolution > address book transition too). Interesting workaround to import old mails from outlook. Why keep the files in / - root ??? Simply make a disk partition and point /home to it. When you do any new install just do not format this partition. -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux
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