[Evolution] Permissions for backed up evolution folder

[Ralph Sanford]

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 23:45, Thinker wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> About a month ago I backed up my evolution folder in my home directory
> onto a CDR. I have since reinstalled SuSE 8.2 on my machine and I would
> like to copy my old email messages from that CDR onto my newly installed
> and functioning evolution. 
> 
> What is the best way to do this.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -=Thinker

There is probably an easier way, but what I do is copy the backup
folders (evolution/local/Inbox/subfolders/whatever?) to a temp directory
in my new installation.  Within the temp directory I change whatever
permissions are needed, usually added user write permission to the all
mbox folders.  Then copy the backed up Inbox subfolders from temp to
home/user/evolution/local/Inbox/subfolders. 

Typically I complete this step immediately after reinstalling the distro
and having setup evolution but before the new evolution setup has
retrieved any new mail.  I typically also copy over all the setup and
config files so that the new install of evolution starts where the old
install left off.

Since you have already a running copy of evolution, you may want to
setup a new subfolder in your Inbox (i.e. old_mail) and copy your backup
mail into "old_mail".  Then you could manually merge/sync your old and
new mail into whatever subfolders that you wanted.

HTH
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