I did a backup of my evolution email programe using the file->backup settings. After having a problem with my computer I had to re install the whole thing as new and use my backups to restore my data. Therefore I am trying to get my emails back too. But when I try to restore settings nothing happens. It does not give an error message either.

Any ideas?
Cheers,

I'm using Thunderbird, so I set up evolution for my local mail. I was able to backup my data, delete the ~/.evolution/ directory and restore it from backup.

You can try restoring manually. First make a backup of your .evolution folder, just in you want to undo.

mv ~/.evolution ~/.evolution_bu
tar xvzf /path/to/evolution-backup.tar.gz

That's it. Everything is in your ~/.evolution/ directory. The backup creates a tarball of this directory.
You did backup the evolution-backup.tar.gz tarball before restoring the system, didn't you?

Restore settings ?.
Been a while, but I'm sure that worked last time I tried.

Works for me (did it yesterday)
Did you start the setup until you get to restore, and choose the backup tar created during backup?

Hi Guys,

Thank you for your response and good advice. It worked perfectly.

Cheers, have a nice day and Bless you.