[kdepim-users] How actually to migrate?

[Mark Fraser]

On Monday 22 Apr 2013 13:50:53 Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 21. April 2013 schrieb O. Sinclair:
> > > I get more and more the impression, that I better import my old
> > > mails from the KMail ~/Mail folder than to have maildir resource
> > > synchronize with it directly. I thought the maildir resource would
> > > work if I made sure that no mbox files are left in the ~/Mail
> > > folder. I made sure about that. But maybe there are other subtile
> > > differences that might cause data loss?
> > 
> > Well, as far as I can now remember (this was some years ago) I moved
> > my maildir directories to a separate location, started with a fresh
> > (as in empty) KMail installation, recreated my accounts and imported
> > my mail folders using the KMail importer. Had very problems, this was
> > actually how Kubuntu recommended you do it back then as the migrator
> > had known problems.
> 
> I have another question on importing mails. I found that it would not import
> to the root folder of the "Local Folders" but I have to create a sub folder
> to import it. Thats where I skipped this on Saturday.

I found that too, had to create a new sub-folder and then move the folders 
after import.

Have you tried the "Export KMail Data" tool? This opens a new window called 
"PIM Setting Exporter" which has 2 entries in the file menu of back up and 
restore data.

It seems to create an archive of everything that KMail needs including the 
Akonadi data.
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