[ale] Recovering Evolution from external device

[wolf at wolfhalton.info]

They are probably in the hidden .evolution/mail directory in your
home/profile directory.  Each email "folder" is a text file with the
emails set sequentially in the file.  These can be quite large files.
It is easier to data-mine them for phone numbers and emails and keywords
than to break them into individual emails again.  I have not, to date,
had any luck inserting these files into alternate email profiles.  The
folder headings do show up in the Evolution client, but they show as
empty folders.

-----Original Message-----
From: DANIEL S LAMBERT <danlambert at bellsouth.net>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
Subject: [ale] Recovering Evolution from external device
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:15:59 -0800 (PST)

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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