[kdepim-users] How actually to migrate?

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Dienstag, 23. April 2013 schrieb 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.

Mark, thanks for confirmation.

That just moved the folders without moving each mail individually for you? 
Did it take long?

> 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.

Well I don´t seem to have that in KMail 1 as in KDEPIM 4.4.11 :), I think 
thats a new function of KMail 2.

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