[kdepim-users] Kmail2 folders/files

[ianseeks]

On Wednesday 20 May 2015 10:48:40 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 May 2015 09:36:21 ianseeks wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 May 2015 16:12:50 James Cain wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 10:33:35 AM ianseeks wrote:
> > > > Thanks Peter.
> > > > I pretty much did most of that which is very laborious and time
> > > > consuming.
> > > > If the kmail directory structures were simpler i.e. everything related
> > > > to
> > > > kmail/kontact was under one folder we could just copy one folder.  Or
> > > > a
> > > > single folder that contained links to all the real locations.  The
> > > > directory structures seem to be getting more and more convoluted as
> > > > more
> > > > features are added.
> > > 
> > > Obviously some type of export tool is needed. It's too laborious even if
> > > the directory structures were known.
> > 
> > it shouldn't be.  it should just be a single cp  or mv of the top level
> > directory if the directory contains links to all the right places.
> 
> Which directory? The messages are stored under $HOME/.local, while the
> filters and other stuff are under $HOME/.kde4. But I see what you mean - it
> should be possible to copy those two to their new location.
The directory i am referring to doesn't exist but if it did, it would be 
something like ~/kontact and below that there would be links to other folders 
like ~/.local/share/.local-mail.directory  that make up the whole kontact 
package (data and config files) so just copying/moving ~/kontact does the 
whole job in one swoop.

> I've never tried doing that because I've been pretty sure that whatever
> caused my KMail problems, and thus drove me to reinstall KMail. would be
> copied across with all the useful stuff.

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