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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.
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?
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