Re: [Evolution] recovering from a crash

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 16:06 -0400, Charles Reynolds wrote:
> I was in the process of rebuilding a box with a new 300GB drive after
> the previous one had crashed. Lots of Contacts, Calender events, mail
> folders, etc.in evolution when the new drive started going bad after
> only two months in service. When it started to go I rushed and made a
> tarball of the .evolution directory not having time to research that I
> needed the config files too. I had made backups of everything else but
> not these. So now I have a new drive and a tarball that Evolution will
> not recognize without the configurations. After two days of googling
> and reading I cannot find a way to rebuild the mailer with only the one
> directory. What are the magic words or potions to do this?
config files are expendable. 
restore the folder .evolution. it should just work.

configure a dummy account, and evolution will start reading the
mail/contact from .evolution folder.

corrrect me if i'am wrong, but this is what i have seen as yet.

> I've even tried to import the mail and contacts into Kmail and  Kontact.
> No go. Am I hosed or is there a solution.
>
> TIA
> Charlie
>
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