[kdepim-users] 20090723KP -- Copying KMail

[Thomas Olsen]

On Friday 24 July 2009 05:14:53 Bruce MacArthur wrote:
> On Thursday 23 July 2009 12:09, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > Hi Bruce.
> >
> > On Thursday, 2009-07-23, Bruce MacArthur wrote:
> > > Hello, Kevin --
> > >
> > > A great question that I anticipated (for myself) without answering
> > > in my message!  I have resisted going directly to Jaunty 100%
> > > PENDING getting the openSUSE stuff copied over adequately.
> > > Therefore, at this time, the two distinct approaches are one and
> > > the same for me!  So we can consider it to be more like replacing
> > > Kubuntu's stuff with openSUSE's. I hope this helps (and even
> > > simplifies!) things.
> >
> > It does!
> >
> > If you can basically "Start from scratch" on the target machine then
> > the easiest way to do that is to pack all things from the old one
> > into an archive and extract it on the new one.
> >
> > more or less like this
> >
> > oldmachine% tar cvjf mails.tar.bz2 .kde/share/apps/kmail/mail
> >
> > newmachine% rm -r .kde/share/apps/kmail/mail
> > newmachine% tar xvjf mails.tar.bz2
> >
> > In words:
> > on the old machine (or on the respective parition mounted in the new
> > one) create an archive containing the whole mail directory
> >
> > This is basically a full backup of all mail files, indices, etc)
> >
> > Then make sure the new machine's target directory is not there.
> > Then extract the archive, basically restoring the old machines state.
> >
> > All while KMail is not running.
> > You might additionally copy some files from .kde/share/config, e.g.
> > kmailrc, mailtransports, emailidentities
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Keviin
>
> Hello, Kevin --
>
> Thank you for your prompt and very helpful reply.  I have come into a
> couple of complications; perhaps you can assist me in managing them.
>
> I had absolutely no problem at all doing the tar -cvjf step.
>
> I had not visible problem doing the rm step.
>
> However the tar -xvjf step is proving to be messy.  For one thing,
> the "/mail" folder (within /kmail) seems to not exist within Jaunty
> KMail.  For another, I am not sure what to make of the fact that you
> didn't tell this newbie what (if anything) to do about
> the "/.kMail-Import.directory/" entry that I find in openSUSE, but do
> NOT find in Jaunty's KMail.  Thirdly, the extraction step simply "blew
> up" with four lines of messages which I present below.
>      tar:   mails.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
>      tar:   Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>      tar;   Child returned status 2
>      tar:   Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> I have almost certainly confused myself by attempting to enter the
> appropriate partition before performing each step.  However, when that
> failed, I tried working within a single partition -- and got the very
> same results.  On my system, these erroneous results are entirely
> predictable; they occur every time (within Jaunty Konsole) I
> enter "tar  -xvjf  mails.tar.bz2" (without the quotes, of course!).
>
>
> I am coming to the tentative conclusion that, when I first installed
> Jaunty, Dolphin did its very best to bring all of my files over to
> Jaunty from openSUSE (with the notable exception of KMail data!).
> Interestingly enough, some extensive changes in one openSUSE file --
> which were carefully saved at numerous points -- seem to have been lost
> forever, and the file reverted to its form immediately prior to Jaunty
> installation!  There is no confusion (yet!) in openSUSE's KMail, but I
> do not yet see what I am doing wrong in trying to get it into Jaunty.
>

Firstly: When you where executing the "tar cvjf mails.tar.bz2 
.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail" command where sure that you where in your home 
directory on the openSuSE partition?

Secondly: When you where executing the "tar  -xvjf  mails.tar.bz2"  command 
where sure that you where in your home directory on the Jaunty partition AND 
that the mails.tar.bz2 package was there too (ls -l mails.tar.bz2)?

>      tar:   mails.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
>      tar:   Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>      tar;   Child returned status 2
>      tar:   Error exit delayed from previous errors

This indicates that the file is not in the same directory as you.

-- 
Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen

  Thomas Olsen

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