Re: [kde] Restoring a KMail folder from a generic backup
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 01:04:57PM -0400, John M Cavallo wrote: I am using KMail 4.10.5 on a Linux system and have a regular backup of my entire home directory. I was manually cleaning up my KMail folders using 'Archive Folder...' with the 'Delete folder and subfolders after completion' when I accidentally overwrote an archive of another folder. Is there a way of restoring the lost mail folder from the backup? Well, go to the backup folder and live folder¹ with $file_manager and copy it back. AFAIK, KMail uses a Maildir “dialect”, so you can even copy single mails. If you don’t trust that or fear you would overwrite even more in the process, then create a new subfolder in KMail, exit KMail, and copy your backup in there. You can then start KMail again and sort out the emails from there. ¹ In the past, emails were stored in ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/Mail. But with KMail 2, at some point the switch was made to ~/.local/share/local-mail for your local folders. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Ich möchte nicht, daß irgendetwas von mir auf einem sozialen Netzwerk landet. Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. Ein Nickerchen hinterm Lenkrad schützt vorm Älterwerden. signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] Restoring a KMail folder from a generic backup
On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 01:28:10 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 01:04:57PM -0400, John M Cavallo wrote: I am using KMail 4.10.5 on a Linux system and have a regular backup of my entire home directory. I was manually cleaning up my KMail folders using 'Archive Folder...' with the 'Delete folder and subfolders after completion' when I accidentally overwrote an archive of another folder. Is there a way of restoring the lost mail folder from the backup? Well, go to the backup folder and live folder¹ with $file_manager and copy it back. AFAIK, KMail uses a Maildir “dialect”, so you can even copy single mails. If you don’t trust that or fear you would overwrite even more in the process, then create a new subfolder in KMail, exit KMail, and copy your backup in there. You can then start KMail again and sort out the emails from there. ¹ In the past, emails were stored in ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/Mail. But with KMail 2, at some point the switch was made to ~/.local/share/local-mail for your local folders. Thanks Frank, unfortunately things have changed recently. I checked both ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail and ~/.local/share/local-mail, and came up empty. I have previously restored the plain text files when I made this type of blunder before. Some recent changes in kmail have moved the mail storage to someplace else. I fear that it might be in a database (akonadi?) along with all of the rest KDE configuration, which would make a targeted restoration very difficult. John. ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] Restoring a KMail folder from a generic backup
On Tuesday, 2014-07-15, 09:27:52, John M Cavallo wrote: On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 01:28:10 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 01:04:57PM -0400, John M Cavallo wrote: I am using KMail 4.10.5 on a Linux system and have a regular backup of my entire home directory. I was manually cleaning up my KMail folders using 'Archive Folder...' with the 'Delete folder and subfolders after completion' when I accidentally overwrote an archive of another folder. Is there a way of restoring the lost mail folder from the backup? Well, go to the backup folder and live folder¹ with $file_manager and copy it back. AFAIK, KMail uses a Maildir “dialect”, so you can even copy single mails. If you don’t trust that or fear you would overwrite even more in the process, then create a new subfolder in KMail, exit KMail, and copy your backup in there. You can then start KMail again and sort out the emails from there. ¹ In the past, emails were stored in ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/Mail. But with KMail 2, at some point the switch was made to ~/.local/share/local-mail for your local folders. Thanks Frank, unfortunately things have changed recently. I checked both ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail and ~/.local/share/local-mail, and came up empty. I have previously restored the plain text files when I made this type of blunder before. Some recent changes in kmail have moved the mail storage to someplace else. I fear that it might be in a database (akonadi?) along with all of the rest KDE configuration, which would make a targeted restoration very difficult. The database is not used for storing mails. If the folder is of a local storage backend, e.g. maildir, then the folder is a directory and the mails are files. Check the account's settings for the base path. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] Restoring a KMail folder from a generic backup
On Tuesday 15 July 2014 9:27:52 AM John M Cavallo wrote: On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 01:28:10 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 01:04:57PM -0400, John M Cavallo wrote: I am using KMail 4.10.5 on a Linux system and have a regular backup of my entire home directory. I was manually cleaning up my KMail folders using 'Archive Folder...' with the 'Delete folder and subfolders after completion' when I accidentally overwrote an archive of another folder. Is there a way of restoring the lost mail folder from the backup? Well, go to the backup folder and live folder¹ with $file_manager and copy it back. AFAIK, KMail uses a Maildir “dialect”, so you can even copy single mails. If you don’t trust that or fear you would overwrite even more in the process, then create a new subfolder in KMail, exit KMail, and copy your backup in there. You can then start KMail again and sort out the emails from there. ¹ In the past, emails were stored in ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/Mail. But with KMail 2, at some point the switch was made to ~/.local/share/local-mail for your local folders. Thanks Frank, unfortunately things have changed recently. I checked both ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail and ~/.local/share/local-mail, and came up empty. I have previously restored the plain text files when I made this type of blunder before. Some recent changes in kmail have moved the mail storage to someplace else. I fear that it might be in a database (akonadi?) along with all of the rest KDE configuration, which would make a targeted restoration very difficult. make sure you have hidden files visible - the subdirectories are now hidden mine are in /home/myuser/.local/share/.local-mail- directory/.whatevermailfolder (notice the dot in the beginning) and some of them are hidden folders, some not ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
