[Users] Copy Claws to new computer

[Jakub T. Jankiewicz]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:35:39 -0000
Paul <paul at claws-mail.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Ok, thanks, I will know for the future. I think that rsync have an option for
this.

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