Hi Jeff, I have found an emergency solution to the problem as my reply to Not Zeds previous posting shows.
Thanks for your help. Georg On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 18:13, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > 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
