if i right click on a folder, and change storage mode from mbox to maildir, will it remove the mbox file or leave it?
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 21:59, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 19:50, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: > > 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 > > OK, a cautious 'looks good'. Took quite a while. And except for a > quite a few of these: > > (evolution:1675): camel-WARNING **: Cannot convert 'DEFAULT_CHARSET' to > 'UTF-8', message index may be corrupt > > (evolution:1676): widgets-WARNING **: Could not open converter for > 'X-UNKNOWN' to 'UTF-8' charset > > which i don't believe is Unison's or evo's fault, went very well. > > So I'm a happy bunny. A very happy bunny. :D > > Next project, get the relevant laptop networking daemons working only > when connected to a LAN, so I'll go back to lurking for a while. > > Thanks all. -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
