Am Dienstag, den 02.04.2013, 07:12 -0400 schrieb Adam Tauno Williams: > On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 05:57 +0200, ChO₂ wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I just ran into the following issue: > > I downgraded from evolution 3.4.4-2 to 2.30.3-5. As a result, all of my > > mails, my filter rules and the content of my signatures were gone. > > Expected. > > > I wasn't worried at this point because I was sure that moving back to > > 3.4.4-2 would bring my mail back. Before I did that, I went to fetching > > new mail and reading it. > > When I finally upgraded to v3, my old mail actually reappeared - but now > > the mail that I had fetched using v2 was gone. And this time, "gone" > > means deleted, not invisible. > > Fortunately, I had somehow sensed that something like this might happen > > so I had made a backup to restore and import the lost messages from. > > Yea, you now have two versions lying about. The automatic-upgrade can't > have any idea what to do with that; it can't merge the bits you > accumulated in your old 2.x data into what remains of your 3.4 data - it > already did the 2.x -> 3.4 upgrade and then YOU went back and added more > bits to the 2.x data. > > Evolution did not delete anything. > > > For me, everything went well, but WHY does evolution delete my messages? > > Evolution did not delete your messages, you did. Or you at least made > them 'unfindable'. > > You can possibly import the MBox files from the 2.x folders into 3.4 - > they should still be there, I assume; I can't see any reason that > wouldn't work, it will just be a manual process. But Evolution did not > delete anything. You just need to find the 2.x MBox files, 2.x is a > very long time ago and I can't remember where they were [ ~/.evolution > maybe? ]. But Evolution did not delete anything.
I'd also have a brief look at local/share/evolution/mail _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
