[kdepim-users] How actually to migrate?

[O. Sinclair]

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On 22/04/2013 13:50, 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.
> 
> Did you move all folders out of that sub folder again to have them
> under the top the folder hierarchy? If so, did that work without
> moving i.e. copying and deleting all mails again?

Well, the problem now becomes remembering something I did a couple of
years ago. But I do not remember having to move folders around after
import.
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