5 Feb
2012
5 Feb
'12
11:19 p.m.
Sorry - that is very charitable wording compared to what I deserve!
On Sunday 05 February 2012 22:14:30 pierre.lag6633(a)free.fr wrote:
In order to be able to help you, we probably need some
more information.
What is your client software for email ? Are you using kmail ?
Yes.
If so, I'd say it simply needs to copy the
.kde/share/apps/kmail folder
from Lenny/KDE to the .trinity/share/apps/kmail of Squeeze/TDE (that was
what I done and it was all right) and you'll get your mails in kmail-
trinity.
I copied Mail to Mail, as I had frequently done before. It would appear that
that was what I had done incorrectly. Helped by faulty HDDs.
Maybe you will have to enter your account passwords
again, but
that will be all, to my sense.
I don't mind having to re-enter things like that! It is the emails and folder
structure that I desperately want to carry over.
So some few questions
- how exactly did you "move" your emails ? (from and to folder names?)
Originally, /home/lisi/Mail to /home/lisi/Mail. That would appear to be at
least part of my mistake, from what you say.
- is everything ok about your mails on your Lenny
version, can you see
them all under kmail or whatever ?
Oh, yes. They are fine now. I lost a few emails, but that is all.
- is your user has the same name on both Lenny and
Squeeze ?
Yes. I change as little as possible.
I think that you have already answered my basic question. I shall take great
care to have at least four separate copies of /home, preferably five. And if
I get stuck, appeal here. I just wondered whether I should be doing
something by way of deliberately storing a copy of my emails in a special
format for transfer.
All I have to decide now is whether to update this machine or get a move-on in
rebuilding my desktop and start fresh on that with Squeeze.
Thank you very much, Pierre.
Lisi