[Evolution] Is it possible to store foldes using Symbolic Link?

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I have tryed moving my "local" folder from /home/milani/.evolution/mail/local to /windows/D/Evolution_Mail/mail/local, an then creating a symblink (ln -s /windows/D/Evolution_Mail/mail/local /home/milani/.evolution/mail/local) ;  but when I Run Evo, I cannot access to the mail contents (I can see the list of mail subjects, I suppose because theya are stored on anpther directory, located not unser the link), and I receive the following error message "Tempo scaduto nel tentativo di prendere il file di lock /home/milani/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.  Riprovare più tardi.. " that translated in English is "Time-out locking the file /home/milani/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox. I suppose Evo cannot access to the path "/home/milani/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox".
Browsing the filesystem from the console, I can access (and also write) to the folder /home/milani/.evolution/mail/local, so maybe Evo cannot access to symblink folders.

Is it possible to "mount" /windows/D/Evolution_Mail/mail/local folder on /home/milani/.evolution/mail/local mount point? In this case maybe Evo will not understand the Trick.

Thanks for your help
Mario


Il giorno mar, 02-08-2005 alle 21:09 +0930, Iain Buchanan ha scritto: 
> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:05 +0200, pensatorecontabile wrote:
> > 
> > I have another partition (DATA) almost free, and I would like to move
> > my mail folders and messages from the actual position
> > (/home/milani/.evolution/mail/local) to a different
> > (ex. /windows/D/Evolution_Mail/mail) 
> > 
> > Is it possible?
> > 
>
> maybe you could do it with "linux" rather than evolution.  While evo is
> not running, you could move your entire .evolution directory to where
> you want it, then create a symlink to that.  eg
>
> mv /home/milani/.evolution /windows/D/Evolution_Mail/mail/.evolution
> ln -s /windows/D/Evolution_Mail/mail/.evolution /home/milani/.evolution
>
> If you don't want to move the entire directory, it would be just as easy
> to move part of it...
>
> HTH,

Mario Milani

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