[ale] Recovering Evolution from external device

[Dan Lambert]

Thanks to everyone for their help. I was able to recover everything I
was concerned about by using these recommendations. It turned out that
just by pasting the copied directories back to their correct locations,
I was able to recover all of my original setup and messages.

Thanks for all of the timely assistance!

Dan

On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 11:34 -0500, wolf at wolfhalton.info wrote:
> 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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