[Evolution-users] Failure to backup.

[Luigi Cantoni]

On Fri, 2026-02-27 at 15:09 -0700, Craig Jameson via evolution-users
wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> I used to run RedHat 9.  I recently upgraded to RedHat 10.  In the
> process of setting up my computer to install RedHat 10, I wrecked my
> RedHat 9 install . . . before I backed up my Evolution data.
> 
> So, all of my Evolution data is in my home directory.  But, my new
> Evolution install doesn't recognize any of it (emails, contacts, etc.).
> There has to be a way to get my new Evolution install
> 
> 	Evolution 3.58.3 (by Flathub.org)
> 
> to recognize the old Evolution files in the home directory.  But, I
> can't find a thread on this.
> 
> Any ideas?

Hi Craig,
If this happened to me and no one gave me better advice I would use
Cat FILES >>Folder.name
All the emails for a single folder in evolution are in a folder of the same name with "." in front to hide them.
If you join all the emails together then you create one large mbox style file which you can use to be loaded up with evolution into a "NEW" folder you have made with the same name. You may need to insert a blank like between each mail to make sure they don't just become one GREAT big email.
That should get your emails all loaded.
This should show you all your existing folders etc
l -a ~/.local/share/evo*/mail/local/

As to the contacts and calendar I cannot offer any useful advice.
I hope someone else says to you "here is the easy way to help just do ...."
If I am wrong in my suggestion how to at least get your emails loaded then as always backup and take care and sorry from me.

-- 
Thanks - Luigi Cantoni

-- 
Thanks - Luigi Cantoni

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