> > > With further investigation, the problem does indeed seem to be in the > file. If I copy the file to another directory, it gets bigger by about > a meg. I can attach that copy to a message without problems whereas the > original will lock up evolution.
That sounds like a low level file corruption - look in /var/log/messages (or its equivalent on your system) to see if there are any issues with the disk itself - if that's OK, run fsck on the partition (from a live distro if possible, the partition needs to be unmounted). Normal disclaimers apply: back up your data, I'm not responsible for anything. > > The thing is, the apparently corrupted file will work just fine when > viewed in multiple video players. Go figure! Compressed video file formats and players are designed to cope with data stream corruption, glitches, dropouts and so on, so you may not have noticed a problem with a few bytes. And if there is a disk read problem, the read-ahead on the data stream is possibly big enough that any timeouts on the disk will have passed by the time the player needs the data. Anyway, as you say, it's not an Evolution problem, so is probably getting a bit off-topic for this list ... P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
