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Moving Evolution Email 8.04 to 10.04

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I am about to move from Ubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 10.04. I'll be doing a clean install.
how can I transfer my Evolution emails from 8.04 to 10.04?
thank you
lyn

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#1

Do a BACKUP on external disk of folder ".evolution".
And better, do a backup of user folder ($HOME).

Install Ubuntu 10.04.

And then overwrite folder ".evolution".

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lyn (lynanne) said : 		#2

thanks delance for your reply.
re your answer - does that mean that when I install the new system I then put in the old Evolution folder in place of the one in the new system?
lyn

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#3

Yes.

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lyn (lynanne) said : 		#4

thanks delance for giving me a nice simple reply to my question.
lyn

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Michael Heaslip (michael-heaslip) said : 		#5

I wish I'd read this before I did a clean install of 10.04 to replace 8.04. I backed up evolution settings to external drive and now I want to restore them in 10.04 but "restore settings" on the evolution menu does not recognise the "tar.gz" folder. Any suggestions?

mjh

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#6

Simply overwrite current ".evolution" folder with older one.