On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 19:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 16:03 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > Did you follow the instructions on the tin, i.e. run Vacuum with Evo > > > completely shut down? > > > > I don't remember, but I suspect evolution *was* running > > If so, that would explain why the db got messed up. For future > reference: *always* run "evolution --force-shutdown" before doing > anything that touches the Evo files. > > (Old Unix saying: Everyone runs "rm -rf /" ... once) > > As to rebuilding the db, as long as the actual messages are there (or > can be recovered from your backup) you can just delete the > various .cmeta and .index files and Evo will recreate them when it > starts up.
Thanks, worked like a champ. Also performance much improved and a few old messages, apparently lost in the cracks, turned up in the Junk folder. jon _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
