[Pan-users] Used Pan as root; how to move files?

[Zorrox]

With RedHat 7.3, I first used Pan and Evolution while logged in as root.
I guess I figured that since everytime I had to do anything "serious"
with Linux I had to do it as root, why not log in as root? However that
now appears to have been a mistake - from my usual login, both Pan and
Evolution started up from scratch, and I didn't see the mail and news I
picked up while logged in as root.

Can I move the data files and change their ownership to my regular
login, or should I just start from scratch? I received the following
instructions for moving Evolution and they did the trick. But I cannot
even find the Pan files. How close are these instructions to what I'd do
to rescue my Pan files?

login as root
cd evolution
chown yourusername.yourgroupname * -R
tar czvf ../evol.dir *
cd ..
chown yourusername.yourgroupname evol.dir
mv evol.dir /home/yourusername
su - yourusername
rm -r evolution
mkdir evolution
cd evolution
tar xzvf ../evol.dir *
cd ..
rm evol.dir
exit
exit