17 Jun
2018
17 Jun
'18
12:56 p.m.
On Saturday 16 June 2018 03:59:47 Glen Cunningham wrote:
G'day All Trinity Gurus,
I am currently running KMail on a very old KDE/Trinity installation.
/etc/issue shows "Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS" which needs to be pensioned off
immediately.
I have installed tde-14.0.4-ubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso onto a
newer computer. The installation seems OK and I managed to transfer
the mozilla bookmarks to the new computer but getting KMail across has
me stumped.
Googling did not produce anything useful. :-(((
On this old computer the KMail info seems to be stored in
/home/glen/.kde3/share/apps/kmail
but the new installation seems to have a very different directory
structure.
So, can the KMail settings and emails be copied to the newer computer?
If anyone knows how, please let me know in GOF-speak (that is words of
2-syllables or less).
Ta,
Glen
Well, first of all I would backup kmail (and anything else) before a new
installation. (~ = your username, or other variables: replace that with
whatever is appropriate to your system.)
sudo cp -r -v -f /home/~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/* -t /media/~/kmail-backup/
Then I would copy it to your new system from that:
sudo cp -r -v -f /media/~/kmail-backup/* -t /opt/trinity/share/apps/kmail/
However, in a pinch you can cut out the middle-man, and just do this:
sudo
cp -r -v -f /home/~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/* -t /opt/trinity/share/apps/kmail/
Don't forget the asterisk; that's very important.
You might notice some legacy items (old emails that you had long since sent or
answered, etc.); but I've done this many times, and haven't actually lost
anything, only found some items duplicated.
Bill
Bill