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.
I can go into the account settings and reselect the Sent foldeer to be my
local one, but Apply remains grayed out, so the change doesn't
get saved.
Also, Once I've read a message and replied to it, it seems to get lost.
Something seems really messed up with my evolution files.
What can i do to fix things?
>
> Matthew Barnes
>
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Leonard Evens [email protected]
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University
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