Re: [Evolution] Restoring mail etc. to Evolution

[Simon Roberts <simon dancingcloudservices com>]

Glad to be of service, it's about time I gave something back. And I
couldn't believe I was alone in facing this so I thought at least it was
worth getting into the archives.

Cheers,
Simon

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 02:11 +0000, Andrew Stevens wrote:
> > From: Simon Roberts <simon dancingcloudservices com>
> > Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:02:22 -0700
> >
> > Well, I answered my own question (how do I insert old evolution files
> > recovered from a dead system into a new install.)
> >
> > It turns out that it's pretty simple, take the contents of the following
> > folders and copy them across:
> >
> > .gconf/apps/evolution
> > .evolution
> > .beagle/Indexes/Evolution* (there are two folders that match this
> > wildcard)
>
> Aha!  Thanks, I think you've solved my problem too.  Copying my old mailbox 
> over from an older installation wasn't working because I didn't know about 
> the .gconf stuff...  Once I'd taken that across too it ran an import wizard 
> the next time I started it up.  I had to move the old mail back into 
> "evolution" rather than ".evolution" as there were some paths assuming the 
> old location, but I can now see a number of folders full of all my old mail. 
> :-)
>
>
> Andrew.
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