On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 14:58 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 13:08 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote:
> > I just upgraded to Fedora 17 from Fedora 14 by doing a fresh install. I
> > kept my home directory including .local where evolution stores things.
> > I am also running Fedora 15 on another machine with evolution 3.0.3.
>
> Are you sharing your home directory between these two machines? Like an
> NFS partition or something?
No.
>
>
> > 2. Various local folders have disappeared in the new versions to be
> > replaced by folders of the form name_sbd which are all empty.
>
> Evolution 3.0 changed its local mail storage format from mbox to
> Maildir. The first time you started Evolution after upgrading you
> should have been prompted about the format change and had to click OK to
> proceed with the conversion. Did that happen?
I don't remember that happening, but I could be wrong abou it.
>
> I ask because "sbd" is a file extension used only by Evolution's mbox
> backend, which implies something went wrong with the migration, or it
> didn't happen at all. The migration should have also left behind an
> account in your folder tree named "local_mbox", which is a backup
> archive of your Evolution 2.x mbox folders.
Assuming something went wrong with the conversion, how do I go about
fixing it?
>
> For the error message you're getting after sending, just go into your
> account settings ("Defaults" tab) and reselect your Sent folder. That
> should prevent future error messages. That was an oversight on our part
> which unfortunately slipped into the stable release.
>
> Matthew Barnes
>
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Leonard Evens [email protected]
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University
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