On Saturday 16 June 2018 03:59:47 Glen Cunningham wrote: > G'day All Trinity Gurus, > I am currently running KMail on a very old KDE/Trinity installation. > /etc/issue shows "Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS" which needs to be pensioned off > immediately. > I have installed tde-14.0.4-ubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso onto a > newer computer. The installation seems OK and I managed to transfer > the mozilla bookmarks to the new computer but getting KMail across has > me stumped. > Googling did not produce anything useful. :-((( > On this old computer the KMail info seems to be stored in > /home/glen/.kde3/share/apps/kmail > but the new installation seems to have a very different directory > structure. > > So, can the KMail settings and emails be copied to the newer computer? > If anyone knows how, please let me know in GOF-speak (that is words of > 2-syllables or less). > > Ta, > Glen > Well, first of all I would backup kmail (and anything else) before a new installation. (~ = your username, or other variables: replace that with whatever is appropriate to your system.) sudo cp -r -v -f /home/~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/* -t /media/~/kmail-backup/ Then I would copy it to your new system from that: sudo cp -r -v -f /media/~/kmail-backup/* -t /opt/trinity/share/apps/kmail/ However, in a pinch you can cut out the middle-man, and just do this: sudo cp -r -v -f /home/~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/* -t /opt/trinity/share/apps/kmail/ Don't forget the asterisk; that's very important. You might notice some legacy items (old emails that you had long since sent or answered, etc.); but I've done this many times, and haven't actually lost anything, only found some items duplicated. Bill Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
