On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 19:11, guenther wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 16:54, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: [...] > > > > Have not OK'd the sync yet (paranoia), though I have backed up both > > evolution folders, I am presented with a list of files to sync including > > these: > > > > mbox.ev.summary mbox.ibex.index, mbox.ibex.index.data > > > > in each dirextory on both machines. > > > > Should these be synced? Should they even be there? > > Yep, they should be there. These files are indexes (see local mail > folders, right click a folder, "Properties", [x] Index body contents). > > You can safely delete them (backups don't need them for example) and > unless you disabled indexing they will be recreated on next startup. > > That also means: If you do not sync them as well, Evolution startup > after sync will take some time [1] as they are recreated (just not > matching the mail folders has the same recreation effect as deleting > them). > > ...guenther > > > [1] Depending on the mail count and your machine it may be worth > fetching a coffee while waiting for the indexes being created...
Cool, that's what I wanted to know. I am happier with them being recreated anyway. Thank you, I'll be doing the sync soon then (anothe backup first though). Cheers -- Tony _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
