[ale] Recovering Evolution from external device

[Jim Kinney]

Evolution keeps mail in ~/.evolution . In most cases just copy that
directory over to the new system. It may be needed to dump the index files
and let it reindex the mail if there is a different version of sqllite on
the new system.

On Dec 27, 2009 9:20 AM, "DANIEL S LAMBERT" <danlambert at bellsouth.net>
wrote:

I had a system crash in an earlier version of Ubuntu that is on a dual boot
drive with XP. (note I didn't have to mention the vendor. Everyone knows who
it is.) For some reason I haven't been able to determine yet, the root
partition is apprently corrupted, and the system won't boot from the Ubuntu
installation.

I have installed another drive in the laptop (Lenovo X60S), and have
installed Kubuntu 9.10 with no problems. I now need to recover the Evolution
mail that was on the old system, as it has several very important emails
that I have saved.

I know how I would have to backup the Evolution setup and mail files if the
drive was used as the active operating system, but I now have to try to
recover this data from the old drive in an external drive housing via USB. I
have been able to retrieve all of the other files from the drive that I
need, but don't want to install a new operating system in the dual boot mode
until I have recovered these Evolution files.

Can someone provide some guidance as to how best to do this?

Thanks!

Dan


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