Re: [Evolution] Recovery of data

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Andrew,

Can you be a bit more specific on what errors you're getting?  Maybe your backup messed up some permissions, but I can't think of any other issues you should get, if you backed everything up.

If your email is still in ~/.evolution/mail then it is definitely recoverable (infact should already be visible), but you didn't specify what the issues are.

 Michael

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 14:32 +1100, Andrew Greig wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have recently installed Evolution 2.0.1 (Mandrake 10.1) and I love it.
> After installing it on my desktop machine I also installed Mdk 10.1 on
> my Notebook.  No problems. Migrated old data and worked amazingly well.
> Delete old data - of course.
>
> Apocryphal tale: Decided to attempt to run MYOB under Wine, could not
> get data file to open.  Told to create a Fat32 partition and put the
> data there.  So ... copied my /home/andrew dir to my desktop machine via
> NFS. Resized the /home partition on the notebook, added a FAT32
> partition, had a few minor problems so thought the easiest way to
> overcome those was to re-install Mandrake. End of apocryphal tale.
>
> copied my /home/andrew data back to the notebook and fired up Evolution
> (same version of course) but cannot get my Evolution data back in
> operation.  All sorts of errors.  I supect that I have been guilty of
> treating the new Evo stuff as if it were old Evo.  As it stores the data
> in different ways and different places I seem to have cocked up badly.
> How can I get my three years of work back into a useable place and
> state, please?
>
> Andrew Greig
> Melbourne, Australia
>
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