-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 31 July 2003 08:35, Peter E. Williams wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > what are the contents of your current ~/Mail folder? (e.g. ls -la) > > The /Mail folders each have three folders: /cur /tmp and the third one I > can't remember (it's my friend's computer and I'm not infront of it right > now). Each of these folders look empty. There are 15 individual folders > including the draft, inbox, outbox, send-mail, and trash.
ok, so you are using maildir format ... the three directories are for mails you haven't read (new/), mails you have (cur/) and somewhere to handle moving mails about in a non-racy way (tmp/) ... in your backup copy, what do you see? the same thing? > - what is the purpose of the index files to make opening, listing and searching emails faster > (do the index files actually contain the emails) no > - why would the folders and hidden files only copy without showing the > emails as files? because the (already read) emails should be in the cur/ maildir subdirectories, so it looks like those didn't transfer over... > - could the emails be saved in another folder (such as /.kde3/share or > some other folder in the /home/user directory no > - if I've lost the emails, how should emails be copied and recovered in > Kmail? by copying your Mail dir somewhere safe and (while KMail is NOT running) copying it back to you ~/Mail... i've done this many times in the past... > - the size of the backup /Mail folder is the same as the old working /Mail > folder (suggesting that the backup /Mail folder has all the emails) hrm... can you do an `ls -la` in your ~/Mail dir, as per my original email? - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/KowL1rcusafx20MRAij/AJ4opvrKOPAYVf19taVFVhrONI+VIwCgqb7A tKS1yrn+ITTDqf0ji7WfJTk= =YzYz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
