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Re: Evolution problem - SQUEEZE/WHEEZY



On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 01:18:09AM +0100, Alasdair Campbell wrote:
> I have recently installed  WHEEZY to a separate partion on one of my
> hard drives. My HOME folder is on another partition and is mounted
> on /home in /etc/fstab in both WHEEZY and SQUEEZE.
> 
> Now here is the funny thing - I cannot see any of my evolution vfolders
> when logged into SQUEEZE, all _new_ messages appear in "Inbox" and all
> messages that appeared in my vfolders are not shown.
> 
> When I reboot into WHEEZY all my vfolders appear, and all my messages
> appear _except_ the _new_ messages that are shown in SQUEEZE.
> 
> I am at a complete loss as to why this can be happening. All other files
> in my /home/USER directory behave exactly the same (notably .bashrc) 
> 
> Can anyone help? I am at my wit's end.

When you used the version in wheezy it probably converted the format
of the config files in $HOME to a new format, and the old version can't
read them anymore.

That's always a hazard of sharing a home between different systems.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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