Re: [Evolution] email missing from .evolution backup folder

["carpetnailz researchintegration org" <carpetnailz researchintegration org>]

On 9/21/2011 2:32 PM, carpetnailz researchintegration org wrote:
> On 9/21/2011 2:19 PM, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 14:09 -0400, carpetnailz researchintegration org
> > wrote:
> > > On 9/21/2011 12:38 PM, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > > > I just filed a bug about this, but it's too late for 3.2 now.
> > > >
> > > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659742
> > > So where are my email and calendar entries from the past two weeks? I
> > > have a backup of my .evolution folder, but it's not there.  Where is
> > > they kept, so I can recover them? I have a full rdiff-backup backup of
> > > my old home directory, but I can't find them anywhere there.
> > >
> > > Btw, I was using a completely updated version of Ubuntu 10.04 and it 
> > > was
> > > still keeping all my email in ~/.evolution.
> > A "completely updated version of Ubuntu 10.04" still means an 18-month
> > old version of Evolution.  We've moved the files since then.  See the
> > bug for details.
> Both ~/.local/share/evolution and ~/.cache/evolution are empty on the 
> backup I did yesterday before I reformatted by HDD. Where are my emails?
> ______________________________________________
I think I found them on the backup when I went in from the command line 
as root. For some reason the files did not copy from the backup when I 
told it 'cp -R * /home/eric' as root.

Should I just copy the .local/share/evolution folder to replace the 
existing one on my new installation?