On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:01 +0200, opensou...@webmail.co.za wrote:
> hi
>
> I was composing an e-mail when the power went out. Now I cannot start/use
> evolution. It starts up but ten freezes with a message in the right panel
> "searching folders".
>
> Please I have important business e-mails in there. Can I recover it? and how?
>
> I run Ubuntu 9.04.
Is your mail archive local or on a server? If it's local, this has
worked for me. If it's on a server, ask someone else:
Change directories to ~/.evolution/mail/local
You will see a large number of files of the forms:
...
Inbox
Inbox.cmeta
Inbox.ibex.index
Inbox.ibex.index.data
...
The files of the form *.cmeta, *.ibex.index, and *.ibex.index.data are
indexes into the data file, here Inbox.
To fix things:
1. Stop evolution by running "$ evolution --force-shutdown"
2. Back up .../local by copying it to somewhere safe: say in
~/.evolution/mail run "$ cp -a local ~/evolution-mail-backup"
3. Delete all of the index files mentioned above. In
~/.evolution/mail/local run "rm -f *.cmeta *.ibex*". Check that
all the index info is gone. If you have any subfolders, this
procedure will have to be modified appropriately.
4. Start evolution, which will re-create all of the index files.
5. Make sure everything is OK.
You should now be back in business.
jon
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