[Users] Transferring to a new OS

Cliff Laine clifflaine at europe.com
Mon Nov 30 16:31:59 CET 2015


On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 07:52:18 -0700
Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 07:45:48 -0700
> Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> 
> > For claws-mail, it should be sufficient to carry over ~/.claws-mail
> > and wherever your mail is stored, probably ~/Mail. I routinely use
> > unison to copy those two directories between my desktop and any of
> > three laptops.
> 
> Also, if you are going up in version number, be prepared for the
> possibility that you cannot copy back again, should you ever have to
> revert.
> 
> E.g.: Claws on Debian 8.2 (jessie), claws is version 3.11.1-3. Debian
> GNU/Linux 7.9 (wheezy) has claws 3.8.1-2, and I cannot use the data
> from 3.11 on 3.8.
> 

Thank you Charles. If it doesn't work as you said you can send me a
bottle of port for Christmas :)



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