Synchronize OE messages to other computers 1

[RBHirsch]

Is there anything wrong with this workflow to keep machines synchronized?

I have 3 machines that I would like to synchronize to my primary system. I have the complete folder of all message subfolders copied to a USB drive.

1. On machine #2, go into the store folder for OE, and with OE not running, delete all the message folders and subfolders.

2. Load OE, and the only things that will now show in the storage folder, will be fresh and empty copies of the required folders, such as Inbox, Sent, Drafts, etc..

3. Import from the USB drive, all the folders for OE. The required folders Inbox, etc., will then have all the messages from those named folders on the USB dirve, and all the other folders will be imported. Now the two machines will be synced.

4. Next time, to sync machine 2, all I should have to do is then to delete all the OE subfolders in the designated main storage folder, and copy in the same folders from the USB drive.

5. Since OE on machine 2 already had registered those folder names, it should now just use the updated folders with the same names, and accept them as proper.

I do all of my backup and syncing using a program called foldersync. I write scripts to do this for all the usual folders, and I could now write a script to update the OE folder on machine 2, and have it all done automatically. Of course I realize that if I added any folders to machine 1, I would manually have to import those new folders the first time, to create them there.

So, does this sound like a good approach?

Ron Hirsch

 

[linney]

Does it work for you, if it does then stick with what you created and know?

Here is what the rest of the World (except myself) is doing. I have E-mails flying in on separate machines, I even find them sometimes. Not too much of a problem as I don't get that many and always check visually on the ISP Server manually (for spam etc.) before downloading from or deleting them on the Server.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Sync...-au&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

 

[RBHirsch]

Hi Linney,

I have not as yet tried this out. But it sure seems like it should work OK. And if it does, my scripts for synchronizing all my other stuff can take care of the OE messages also.

I did learn that if I imported the complete list of files from my main computer folder, that all messages copied in. And, since many of them were already on the machine being updated, that there were hundreds of duplicated messages. Importing does not care what's there - it just brings them all in. It's not like copying in regular computer files, where files with the same name cannot coexist.

I was just curious to know what others were doing.

I can of course check this out easily, and I plan on doing that.

Ron