[Users] Copy Claws to new computer

[Jakub T. Jankiewicz]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:02:09 +0200
Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:50:59 +0200, Jakub T. Jankiewicz 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.  
> 
> Have you not copied the hidden files below ~/Mail which Claws Mail puts
> into every mail folder?
> 

I think that I copied whole directory, or created a tar ball before copy. I
don't remember exactly, it was a few years ago. Recently I installed fresh new
Fedora because I failed to upgrade the system, and didn't have any issues like
before, when moved from Fedora to Xubuntu.

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