Solved Can you Import your M2 data?

schreck

bookmarking this.
thats the essential option for anybody from old opera. no idea why this isnt/wasnt a priority.. waited so long for m3 and still no import, so still cannot use this

ugly

@schreck said in Can you Import your M2 data?:

bookmarking this.
thats the essential option for anybody from old opera. no idea why this isnt/wasnt a priority.. waited so long for m3 and still no import, so still cannot use this

Import from M2 is available. It's still a work in progress. It didn't work for me, but others have had success.

Go to:

File --> Import from Applications or Files

Then you can check Opera 12.x and check mail.

Pesala

@schreck The feature is already available, but as this is still a technical preview it may not work perfectly, or at all. If you have a lot of mail, it could take hours.

File menu, Import from Applications or Files...

Import M2 Mail.png

schreck

oh, ok. but if that doesnt work for everybody, its obviously still not very reliable.
i have lots of different filters and mail accounts, so this would be risky.
actually it could state successfully imported,
but many mails would be empty then or just not imported?
is there some kind of redundancy check or indicator how many mails exactly were imported and which ones werent?

Pesala

@schreck Try it and see. What do you have to lose?

Testing features and reporting bugs is the only way to get improvements made. I am already using it as my email client, and no longer need to launch Opera 12.18, except to find old contacts, which did not import for me.

(VB-77646) Contacts Not Imported

I don't keep a lot of email, so I forwarded a few dozen archived emails to my vivaldi.net account before trying the email client. All of those imported OK sorted in their custom folders.

WildEnte

@schreck and just to complete the story from the other side, since about 20 years I keep all emails regardless of how unimportant (I only delete spam). I didn't use the import tool but synced my active accounts IMAP, which means that two of my accounts that no longer have a server associated are still waiting for import from M2.

M3 is working fine so far - it doesn't have the advanced filtering capabilities of M2 yet but the search works well. There are still a few bugs and some stuff is just missing, but overall it is working well enough and most importantly I don't seem to lose anything. And setting the new theme opacity to 75%, the panel looks absolutely sleek

Contrary to @Pesala I still fire up O12.18 regularly because of IRC and, you know, backup just in case.

schreck

@Pesala
well if i import 15000 mails, how the heck would i know then, if there are some lost??

@WildEnte
yeah, if it would all be imap .. the import is the crux here.
are you going to import your old mail then or waiting until out of beta?
please tell how it went then..

WildEnte

@schreck said in Can you Import your M2 data?:

how the heck would i know then, if there are some los

Hover your mouse over all messages or received in M2 and or will show you the amount of messages in that filter, compare with M3

If all your mail is on an imap server, you don't need to use the import function but can just set up the account, choose to download the bodies and let M3 fetch them all. Couple of GB data of course but that's the same as if I download some Linux distro.

ThShdw

I have the latest version of 4 that came out today and when I try to import my M2 data nothing seems to happen... I get a message to check the status bar, but the status bar provides no feedback or indication that anything is importing. All my mail data is in an external drive. I have Opera 12.18 installed and I can see all my data.

I have a lot of labels 40+

let me know what other data could be useful to troubleshoot.

WildEnte

@thshdw not sure what trouble exactlz you run into, check these threads

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/58193/importing-from-m2 (long and potentially helpful)

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/59204/importing-from-m2-fails-at-irc-accounts (short and not helpful at all)

ThShdw

@wildente Thanks, This did not work. i'm having the same issue as outlined in the first link you provided where nothing happens. I can point it to an empty random folder and the interface says its syncing but in the status bar nothing.

Same as when I point it to my actual mail files. The interface says its syncing but nothing in the status bar about progress and no data is imported.

ghpy

@thshdw Try pointing it to Opera's profile folder, not the mail folder. On Linux systems it's ~/.opera (as opposed to ~/.opera/mail). Preset folder meant hours without any result. This input did the import in a few minutes.

Edit: I have tried this the whole day, trying to make it work (with several fresh installs of Vivaldi in between). The import sometimes works and sometimes it doesn't. But trying to import more than one M2-account never worked. There was always at least one account not receiving new mails or not showing imported mails. I only got a working system in Vivaldi after deleting little used accounts (less than 30 mails) in Opera. I then imported the account with 10.000 mails and added the other accounts to Vivaldi without importing their mails.

ThShdw

@ghpy Thanks for the help. I had 5 mail accounts in my M2 dataset. The only way I can get importing to work is to import each account individually. Load Opera 12.18 delete all but the one I'm working with.

I then check the accounts.ini for the store # for the account I'm working on and remove the others. After doing this I can import.

Here is the working structure...

mail folder

store folder

originally my store folder looked like this

I'll now have to load my backup and do this process for the other accounts.

WildEnte

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ghpy

@thshdw And did you get all your accounts integrated and running in Vivalid that way?

ThShdw

@ghpy Unfortunately no. I have tried two other accounts and they both failed. Its unknown to me why this one worked but the others have not. I have 2 more to try.

As a troubleshooting step I did a clean install of opera 12.18 and then did an mbox import selecting just one of the accounts.

Then pointed vivaldi to the new install with the import. This did not work work either.

I even ran process monitor during the import attempt to see that would help me troubleshoot. In the process monitor logs you can see vivaldi parsing through the mbox files and then it touches its own index and just stops.

It seems that importing is too buggy and I'll probably just wait until they fix the bugs.

schreck

any news on a bug fix? dont want to switch until this works..