On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 10:13, Georg R�nning wrote: [snip] > > Good point, as we se accidents happen it should be an option to > continously make a backupfile of mailboxes.
just use a cron job, evolution has no business making backups. > > > You said that there were around 1300 mails in this inbox. > > Try to look for huge files on your harddisk that could match > > the possible size of your old inbox.. > > I have not found any "strange" huge files astray, but I still have the > "enormous" mbox.ibex file of 1,5 Gb. As far as I understand this MUST be > related to the disappeared mailbox ? somehow I think you are misreading the output of ls, but in any case that doesn't much matter. the mbox.ibex files are just an index of words that appear in each message so that we can do fast "Body Contains" searches. > > I have tried most editors but the either hang or display a mix of > letters and code and make no sense. yea, mbox.ibex files are binary, not plain text. Jeff -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
