Move evolution e-mail folders and files to different partition
Running evolution 3.2.3 under Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. Right now, the data files and folders for evolution are under /home/john/.local/share/evolution/. This is in same partition with the OS and program files. I want to move the /evolution/ folder and subfolders to another partition that is labeled /media/MyChemistry/ so that the new location for the evolution folder and subfolders would be /media/MyChemistry/evolution/ . This disk partition is permanently mounted (unlike a thumbdrive, for example) and shows up when PC boots.
On another forum a symlink was suggested, but did not seem to work. I would prefer a hardlink. Thank you, JOhn |
Hi,
a symlink should work. If you can explain what you mean by "did not seem to work" we should be able to help. In principle it should be as simple as: Code:
cd /home/john/.local/share/ Note also that you hardlinks can only exist within a single partition. Evo2. |
Thank you for your reply. Other advice I had gotten probably had sym link sent wrong. Also, I had copies the evolution folder to /MyChemistry as part of the first event.
Yes, you method may have the potential to work, but somehow the Inbox file did not move as intended, and I had to restore evolution from the file I made earlier this afternoon. The restore put everything back under /home/john/.local/share/ Perhaps someone will tell us how to make evolution point to another directory. John |
Hi,
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rm -r /media/MyChemistry/evolution Quote:
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Evo2. |
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