[Users] Copy Claws to new computer

[Paul]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:50:59 +0200
"Jakub T. Jankiewicz" <jcubic at onet.pl> wrote: 

> >From my experience of moving files between Linux systems and computers,
> >I've  
> notices that If you just copy the email files ~/.claws-mail and ~/Mail to
> different physical disk, you need to mark all emails as read again. You need
> to go to every folder and mark all as read. But when you have the same
> partition like /home and don't modify it only mount on a different system
> you don't need to do this. Maybe this is based on a timestamp of those
> files. If I remember correctly I used rsync/scp to copy the files to
> different laptop and maybe I didn't retain all the attributes.

You need to preserve timestamps. Your problem was that you didn't preserve
timestamps.

with regards

Paul