Terry, I have never used KDE, so can't help with KMail/Kubuntu specifics; but from a shell window in your home dir, if there's a particular string that you can recall having used / seen in a mail (let's say Svarowski Crystal) you could t ry doing
$ grep -r ~ 'Svarowski Crystal' and see if anything comes up. Maybe try the same in the base directory of your backup. hth On 1 November 2014 14:23, Terry Coles <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > After Kubuntu 14.10 broke my Activities behaviour as I related last week, > I gave > up trying to fix it and did a clean install (having taken a full backup of > my > home directory). I'm pretty much up and running again, but I cannot > retrieve my > message folders in Kontact. > > When I first starting using KMail years ago, I recall that it put the > messages > in ~/Mail. I don't seem to have that directory now! In an online forum, I > gleaned that the mailboxes are sometimes to be found in > ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail2. I have that directory but no mailboxes. > > So where has my mail gone? KMail was working fine before I did the > re-installation and I did a full backup. Nevertheless I cannot see where > my > messages have gone. I've searched for 'mdir' and 'mbox', but found > nothing. > Does anyone know what KMail currently does with messages or have any > clues as > to what I should be searching for? > > If anyone else uses Kontact, I'd appreciate an insight into the location > of the > folders. > > > Terry Coles > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-11-04 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue > -- best regards, 웃 Victor Churchill, Bournemouth -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-11-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
