30th April 2017, 11:08
Having now wasted another day on this venture, i've had no choice but to abandon once again any realistic chance of migration from TB to Evo as my PIM. That Perl script pgm did indeed produce converted format mailbox files, but created a horrible flat directory structure & with multiple spurious characters in most of the resultant directories in said flattened tree. Very many hours were spent progressively working my way through bulk & manual edits in Dolphin & in Konsole to try to correct the carnage, & LOTS of trial & error was required to discover exactly what naming conventions were acceptable to Evo [when it didn't like incompatible edits of specific directories, it simply omitted showing them in the UI, but most of this work was unintuitive wrt knowing what was compatible, hence all the T&E].
Still with a large amount of editing necessary, by chance i happened to notice the number of emails in one of the Evo folders, vs in the original TB folder... & the numbers were different! Gahhh, i should have checked this immediately after the mb2md conversion, but foolishly just presumed it all worked fine. I then checked a lot of the other folders, & whilst some agreed, the majority were missing lots of emails. At that point i recognised that the adventure had to be summarily aborted... such data loss is obviously intolerable.
It's a pity; Evo has always looked to me like it has a lot of potential, but yet again i have had to walk away from it.
Still with a large amount of editing necessary, by chance i happened to notice the number of emails in one of the Evo folders, vs in the original TB folder... & the numbers were different! Gahhh, i should have checked this immediately after the mb2md conversion, but foolishly just presumed it all worked fine. I then checked a lot of the other folders, & whilst some agreed, the majority were missing lots of emails. At that point i recognised that the adventure had to be summarily aborted... such data loss is obviously intolerable.
It's a pity; Evo has always looked to me like it has a lot of potential, but yet again i have had to walk away from it.