Re: [Evolution] A few observations ..

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

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 ?!?