open a terminal (ctrl+alt+t)
mv /home/john/.local/share/evolution /media/MyChemistry/.
ln -s /media/MyChemistry/evolution /home/john/.local/share/evolution

The last command make a symlink.


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Vagner


2014-02-18 2:46 GMT-03:00 John Lauterbach <[email protected]>:

>  I would like to move the data files (e-mails, contacts, etc.) from
> /home/john/.local/share/evolution/ to /media/MyChemistry/evolution/ .
> Reason for wanting to do this is partition with /home/ is getting low on
> space as data files associated with evolution are larger than 5 GB and it
> is also the same partition that contains the Ubuntu 12.04 OS and other
> applications software.  Some authorities have suggested symlinks, but they
> do not seem to work.  Also, the restore program on evolution put the
> restored data back on /home/john/.local/share/evolution/ .
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> John
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