Re: [Evolution] lost local folders when migrating data

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 07:04 -0400, John Sauter wrote:
> I am running Evolution version 3.30.5 (3.30.5-1.fc29) on the Fedora
> distribution of GNU/Linux.  Recently Evolution asked if it could
> perform a migration, and assured me that a copy of my data would be
> preserved.  I allowed it.

If you did not use version 2.32 (migration from mbox to maildir format)
or version 3.6 (migration from ~/.evolution to XDG standard folders)
before, then I have no idea what kind of "migration" this refers to.

> Later I noticed that all of my local folders, where I keep old e-mails
> that I might want to reference later, had disappeared from "On This
> Computer".

What kind of email account type were these e-mails from? POP? IMAP?

Which folders are still there and displayed under "On This Computer"?

> I poked around in
> ~/.local/share/evolution/mail and found a directory named
> 9d8ea32ba2403d0384ee571755fb07b1045001c2.   Within that directory is
> all of my old local folders.  How do I access them from evolution?

Probably by moving them under ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/ if
you are really sure that they were under "On This Computer" before. But
before trying that I'd first love to see my questions above answered.

andre
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