Evolution & Ubuntu 12.04 - Google Addressbook issue

Evolution  is not the default  email client in Ubuntu 12.04 Lts,

but you can easily install it via the software centre.

If you Use a google address-book, you might have noticed that at first start the address-book often won't be populated, and throw and error.

Archive E-mails in Evolution (Ubuntu 8.04/9.04)

Intro:
One thing I really liked in MS-Outlook, was the Archive option; creating one file with the complete sub-folder structure preserved. Evolution does not yet have this feature, however, you can mimic it, with a very similar result.
I have switched from Outlook to Evolution around July 2008, And we are currently March 2009. So far, I haven't archived anything, and my daily Back-up starts to take way more time than I'm willing to bare.

Goal:
I want to outline a procedure, that will give me a system very much like the outlook archives. I used to Archive Quarterly.

Procedure:
I Prefer to work in my Virtual Box, to make sure I won't mess up anything in my real time version. (work off-line.)