How do I move old mails to an external disk?

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H,
I have been using Evolution for many years.
My archived mail folder are under /home//.local/share/evolution/mail/local/. My archive is almost 48G. Mail is organized in a tree of folder, subfolder, subsubfolder, and more.
I would like:
– keep my present install of Evolution;
– move a large number of mail folders up to ~40G to an external disk;
– be able to access the moved folders/mails from my Evo install anyway.

Is it possible? how? thanks for your help. Cheers
mario

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This isn’t specific to Evolution. You can move any directory tree to an
external disk and leave a symbolic link to it in the old location. You
just have to mount the disk in a known place and use any command-line
tool ('cp, ‘rsync’ etc.) to move the files.

Be sure to do this while Evolution is completely shut down to avoid
problems.

poc