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i want to extract -- at least my drafts folder -- from my old email back up. though contacts, and that annoying device memory full glitch carried over when restoring, the emails didn't. (it is possible that my planned second reflash will resolve that.)

i'm guessing that the email client stores email to the device memory, rather than the internal memory, or removable. so contributes to the device memory full problem -- as can canola, and the temp folder filling with 'application manager' installs.

so yeah -- if i can't restore-- is there something i can use to view the back up'd emails?

(if not a 'back up viewer' -- think file manager for the back up app -- would be a nice addition.)

Having the same problem... did you by any chance have a gmail pop3 account before and set up a gmail imap account after flashing?

Not sure if this it too late to help, but I had a lot of concern about monitoring my work email via N810/Diablo because I get on the order of 100MB a week. After a fresh boot, I copied ~/.modest to the internal flash, removed ~/.modest, then did a symbolic link to the directory on the internal flash. This seems to be working. If you did that before the import that would keep you from filling internal memory.

(had to do the same for roadmap - why don't these apps with large memory requirements do this by default?)

During the set up I'm pretty sure I opted for a pop3, but yes it looks and feels more like imap. So I could have done thqt. I'm going to reflash again tomorrow, having slept, and double check.

Good call. I'll try this. Just need to work out how to do a symbolic link?

i had previously tried archiving, but that just seemed to eat mail, or least did.

ln -s /location/to/point/to linkname

only decent reference I could find online:

http://kb.iu.edu/data/abbe.html

I was worried that Modest would get confused during the change but I didn't have to reboot or anything. I hope it works for you!

.modest appears to be in the internal memory anyway.

and the backup can be read with a text editor. i just need to work out what order the folders are numbered in it seems.