Hi :) Usually LibreOffice reads Word documents just fine. Not always 100% but usually.
Also a standard way to "get back to factory defaults" with LibreOffice is to delete the whole of it's config folder and then a new one is generated automatically. You can even copy back some of the stuff from an old config folder and it will mostly work. One good way to get all the same settings on every machine is to copy&paste that config folder to the right place on every machine. I'm slightly surprised it doesn't work that way with every project but it makes sense. Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 7/6/12, Pete Biggs <p...@biggs.org.uk> wrote: > From: Pete Biggs <p...@biggs.org.uk> > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evo mail: explanation of old and new file system > To: evolution-list@gnome.org > Date: Thursday, 7 June, 2012, 17:01 > > > > > So this is why I need to have an explanation of the > file structure and > > file types: when I look in > > > /home/eric/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/ > > I see a strange mixture of the "old" mbox type files > and, > > under /home/eric/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/cur, > a zillion > > entries that look like > > '1339022703.13737_7755.localhost.localdomain:2,ST'. > > > > This is all very confusing. I want to know what's > happening and how I > > should go about moving the missing mail from my old > backups to the new > > situation. What are these > > > '1339022703.13737_7755.localhost.localdomain:2,ST' > > files? > > They are maildir message files > > > How do they relate to the mbox-type files? > > mbox has all the messages from a single folder in a > monolithic file. > Maildir has all the messages from a single folder in a > directory, one > message per file. The folder name is the name of the > directory with > subfolder component names separated by a '.' > > > Do I just copy the > > missing mbox files to the new location and just let Evo > do the > > conversion? > > No. They are different file formats - it's like > copying a zip file > containing lots of word documents into your ~/Documents > folder and > expecting LibreOffice to be able to read them. > > > Do I need to copy all six of the old .evolution files > for > > each of the mailbox folders (that is, the sample set I > listed in my > > initial email in this thread)? > > > > As I asked there: > > > > "So assuming I can find those old emails in > ~/.evolution on one of my > > old backups, what's the procedure for moving them to > the new format? Do > > I just copy everything from the old to the new? > E.g. > > .evolution/mail/local/xLynnOld > > > .evolution/mail/local/xLynnOld.cmeta > > > .evolution/mail/local/xLynnOld.ibex.index > > > .evolution/mail/local/xLynnOld.ev-summary > > > .evolution/mail/local/xLynnOld.ev-summary-meta > > > .evolution/mail/local/xLynnOld.ibex.index.data > > to > > > .local/share/evolution/mail/local/.xLynnOld > > ?" > > No. I understand what you say about trying to fix > problems, but if you > don't know what you are doing, then you should definitely > not play > around with the files in Evolution's (or anything else's) > hidden private > folders. At best it will not work, at worst you will > loose more stuff. > > > > > It's all well and good to say, "There isn't in the user > docs because > > it's nothing that a user should need to care about. It > should be all > > automatically." But the user does need to care > about it since he has to > > fix the problem. And he has to understand what's > happening. > > If you look in the FAQs or in the Help documentation it DOES > tell you > where Evolution holds all its data. It may not give > chapter and verse > about the old and new locations because it's not something > that 99.999% > of the time people need to know (or care) about - it's also > a futile > task because the locations, and the data stored in them, > change > continually with each release as the application is > improved. Such is > the nature of an evolving Evolution. Personally I do > not want the > developers to be hampered in their goals by having to keep > the backend > store consistent from one release to the next - so long as > there are > efficient, working, upgrade mechanisms, then I don't care. > > So, anyway, to sort out your problem. > > If you have an mbox file full of mail you want to get access > to within > Evo, then > > 1. Make a back up copy of the file. > 2. Create a new "account" Edit -> Preferences -> Mail > Accounts -> Add > 3. Fill in some real or dummy info for the email address > 4. Select Server Type of "Standard Unix mbox spool file" > 5. Point the File: dialogue to the mbox file > 6. close etc. filling in things as necessary > > You will now have another account in the folder list, the > "Inbox" of > that account will contain all the mail messages in that mbox > file. > > Do not be tempted to just leave that account and use the > mbox file as a > normal mail folder. In Evolution, copy the messages > out of the mbox > folder to your local mail folders (or wherever you want them > to be). > > After all the files have been copied, go back in to > Edit->Preferences > and delete the account you created. > > Repeat for all the mbox files containing things missing in > your current > setup. > > So, you see, no need to fiddle with internal Evolution > files, no > knowledge needed of how Evo stores things. Just an > application of the > standard facilities provided by Evolution. > > P. > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
