Re: [Evolution] Importing a folder from MH/claws

[Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh pacbell net>]

On Sun, 2020-01-12 at 08:11 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:

On Sat, 2020-01-11 at 22:59 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

Is there a way to import a complete folder from MH or claws, or does

it have to be done a message at a time. In the (distant) past, as I

remember it, an MH folder could simply be copied into the

~/.local/evolution/...; you would then delete folders.db , and then

evolution would create the necessary index files. This no longer

seems to work.

What makes you think that this no longer seems to work? Please provide

clear steps, version information, what happens, what does not happen.

I copied a folder named ross into ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.ross , deleted folders.db and then waited for evolution to rebuild folders.db. (In the process I noticed that evolution only rebuilds index files as needed, or at least seems to, and that I had to view each folder briefly to get the index files rebuild.  The folder .ross has not been indexed.

Here is evidence. Note the lack of .ross.cmeta :

$ cd /home/jonrysh/.local/share/evolution/mail/local

$ ll -A

...

-rw-rw-r--. 1 jonrysh jonrysh        28 Jan 11 23:08 .rge.cmeta

drwx------. 5 jonrysh jonrysh      4096 Aug 15 13:53 .rooter

-rw-rw-r--. 1 jonrysh jonrysh        28 Jan 11 23:08 .rooter.cmeta

drwx------. 2 jonrysh jonrysh      4096 Jan 11 15:24 .ross

drwx------. 5 jonrysh jonrysh      4096 Jul  6  2011 .rpm

-rw-rw-r--. 1 jonrysh jonrysh        28 Jan 11 23:08 .rpm.cmeta

drwx------. 5 jonrysh jonrysh      4096 Aug 18  2011 .rsnapshot

-rw-rw-r--. 1 jonrysh jonrysh        28 Jan 11 23:08 .rsnapshot.cmeta

...

$ ll -A .ross

total 24

-rw-------. 1 jonrysh jonrysh 1583 Jul  9  1996 1

-rw-------. 1 jonrysh jonrysh  941 Jul  9  1996 2

-rw-------. 1 jonrysh jonrysh 3004 Jul 13  1996 3

-rw-------. 1 jonrysh jonrysh 1169 Jul 13  1996 4

-rw-------. 1 jonrysh jonrysh 1197 Jul 14  1996 5

-rw-------. 1 jonrysh jonrysh  716 Jul 14  1996 6

jon