Re: [Evolution] evolution lost all of my vfolders!
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 22:15 +0530, Johnny Jacob wrote: Information such as version / distro helps here :) Distro is irrelevant. This is a core evo problem unrelated to how it was packaged by a given distro. You are right about version information though. 2.26.1. Probably to an evo developer though, the error messages I posted were more relevant than the version. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] evolution lost all of my vfolders!
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 19:31 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: This sounds very serious. Indeed, it does. I really wish somebody very familiar with the vfolders code and those error messages would comment. There seems to be something broken with some of folders.db under ~/.evolution/mail . Hrm. Do many of the folders.db actually contribute to the vfolders searches or is it just the one under .evolution/mail/vfolder? It depends on your account types what you can do. If you've every your mail stored remotely, like IMAP, then you can safely delete folders.db files under ~/.evolution/mail/imap I'd tend to not want to do this until there is a positive confirmation that volder information is spread across all of them or if it's, as I suspect, only in the .evolution/mail/vfolder/folders.db file. Try to restore searches.xml This file is unchanged (i.e. as compared to backups) for many months. and vfolders.xml in ~/.evolution/mail/ And this one is unchanged since 7 days prior to the loss of the vfolders. So both of these files are identical to backup copies going back to prior to the loss of my vfolders. So neither of these can be at fault. Though because of the above errors, maybe restoring whole ~/.evolution might help better. ~sigh~ I'd really like to avoid that. I'd rather just fix whatever is actually broken. Which is why I was hoping somebody very familiar with this vfolder code would give some advise. Definitely do the backup of the broken folder too, in case something goes even more wrong. Heh. Of course. ;-) Much thanx for your help. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] evolution lost all of my vfolders!
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 12:30 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: As you know, I use vfolders heavily. I had a crash (i.e. power outage) this morning and when I restarted *ALL* of my vfolders were gone! I do have daily backups if I have to go back to a previous one but I don't even know what to restore. Can somebody enlighten me as to where/how evolution stores the vfolder configuration? Well. Restoring .evolution/mail/vfolder/folders.db from a backup seems to have given me back all of my vfolders, but they are not accurate/up-to-date. There are many messages in underlying real folders that are just not showing up in vfolders. Why are the vfolders not being updated to reflect messages that might have arrived here while this vfolder breakage was happening? FWIW, I don't think this issue of inaccurate vfolders is isolated to this breakage I was suffering. I have many times noticed that if mail arrives while, say, evolution is not running that the volders and their underlying real folders will be out of sync. Any way to force the vfolders to be refreshed? b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
