Importing Kmail files from Kubuntu 6.06 to newer Kubuntu

[Ric Moore]

On 07/21/2012 11:14 PM, rswanson wrote:
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> Ric Moore wrote:
>> On 07/21/2012 07:16 PM, rswanson wrote:
>>> I had to update my old system, (Kubuntu 6.06), and because the
>>> files are so important to me as a listowner of a group , I backed up the
>>> old drive and replaced it with a new HD and Kubuntu 11.04, but the new
>>> kmail would not import the older kmail files. They are in the /Mail
>>> folder, and are available, but the subject line is not readable.
>>> I have tried importing the mail files with Kmail, Thunderbird, and
>>> SeaMonkey, with no luck.
>>> I installed the original Kubuntu HD in another computer, and I can
>>> read the files, but that doesn't solve my problem.
>>> Does anyone have any way to successfully import the older files to
>>> my new system? Would it work to install another, older, Kubuntu system
>>> and import the files that way? I can't just dump the system and start
>>> again and there are too many files to do it manually. ( over 40,000 )
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bob
>>
>> There should be an export/backup feature in your older version of kmail.
>> So, from the machine with the older version, export it and copy that to
>> your new machine and see if it will import. You might try the KDE
>> website to see if there is a how-to export/import from an older version
>> to a newer version as well. Ric
>>
>>
> Thanks, I'll have a look.  I had been using sync to back up my system,
> so the files were the same as the originals.
> Bob

Good luck! Like you, I keep everything worth keeping. :) Ric


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