Re: Saving my Inbox mail from loss when Evolution migrated to sqlite

[Johannes Rohr <jorohr@gmail.com>]

José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque@cox.net> writes:

> Hi.  Please I need a little help.  I'm running debain unstable (wisely
> or unwisely, I'm not sure right now).  I've been running unstable for
> a few years with no problems because I like the latest software and
> feel I know enough to handle the challenges of running unstable.
>
> That said, recently I moved my mail folders from icedove to evolution
> (I liked that it places the timezone in a reply when quoting).  Today
> I upgrade the evolution packages and it seems that in switching the
> folders to sqlite *all* of the mail that I had stored in my inbox (for
> quite some time now) is gone. 

If I am not completely mistaken, the actual mail is still stored in
mbox files, isn't it? Wouldn't this folders.db happen to be just an
index file or so?

> I've shutdown and restarted evolution
> and when I do, the Inbox folder shows a number of unread e-mails (487)
> but when I click on the Inbox folder it shows nothing.  I'm hoping
> that all of my mail is actually still there.  Please, any help in
> recovering my mail, if possible, would be greatly appreciated.

I would (after shutting down evolution and making a backup copy of
course) delete the folders.db (and probably also all the *index,
*cmeta and *summary files and all the other cruft and leave only the
actual mbox files in place. I just tried that for my
~/.evolution/mail/local and all the mail is still there.

thanks,

Johannes


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