On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 12:01 -0700, Brewster Gillett wrote: > Like probably many of you, I have a love-hate relationship with Evo,
Not I, no hate at all. > It's a very capable and comprehensive program yes, it does. > , but it does seem to love to put a stick in your spokes when you > least expect it. Evolution 3.2.3 under Ubuntu 12.04. In general it seems that software packaged with Ubuntu is quite thorny. > Evo has decided, not based AFAIK on any action(s) I took, to move some > of my folders to entirely different and random spots, and random orders, > in the folder tree. Yeah.... I really doubt that. > This would be largely unobjectionable if it would > allow me to move them all back where they belong, but it does not. > I will try to lay out a comprehensive description - bear with me. > EXAMPLE: > The folder "Forms-l", originally located under "On This Computer", > originally had two sub-folders situated under it in the tree; > "F-L vetting", and "F-Larchives". For arcane reasons of its own, Evo > has moved all three and rearranged them, so that now "Forms-l" and > "FL vetting" are resting under "Health", and "FLarchives", mirable > dictu, still occupies its traditional place just under "Forms-l". > So I'm thinking, I will just move them back where they belong. > Not so fast, sez Evo. Here's the sequence I performed: > (1) Moving "FL vetting" back under "Forms-l". > * highlight "FL vetting" > * click FOLDER > * click MOVE FOLDER TO... > * highlight "Forms-l" > * click "Move" > And it worked. "Forms-l" now shows its two subfolders under it where > they belong. Now to move "Forms-l" back to where *it* belongs: > * highlight "Forms-l" > * click FOLDER > * click MOVE FOLDER TO... > * highlight "On This Computer" > * click "Move" > And nothing happens - no move takes place, *AND* I get the yellow bar > at the top of the screen which usually denotes some form of error > message, but with nothing in it except the "Dismiss" block. > I considered the possibility that Evo is lumbered with a bug which does > not allow it to "MOVE" folders which have subfolders. But testing has > shown that unlikely, because it is also refusing to move folders with > *no* subs under them. > BTW the affected folders also have filter rules applied to them, so > naturally the filter rules subroutine is not finding them, meaning that > until I solve this, I have to hunt or do search through "Inbox" to > get their traffic. > I've looked through what FAQs I could find, and did not find this > problem addressed. Anyone have any ideas? I've seen some occasional oddities with IMAP folder moves - but then who knows who to blame... I do not recall every seeing an issue with local "On this computer" folders. -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
