On 07/12/2010 08:27 AM, AG wrote:
Hi Is there anyway of recovering items that have been deleted by "emptying" KMail's trash folder? I suspect not, and certainly the KMail manual suggests that once it's gone, it's gone. However, ever hopeful, I thought that someone here may have a trick or two up their sleeve.
If you're a typical home desktop user and KMail acts like Tbird/Nutscrape/Evo then all of a folder's emails are stored in 1 mbox file.
When you compress that file (i.e., empty the folder), the MUA copies the "active" messages into a new mbox file, unlinks the old mbox file and then renames the new mbox file to the old name.
So, if you dismounted that partition *very* soon afterwards (to prevent anything else from possibly overwriting that area of disk, then it's possible to recover that file using tools others have mentioned.
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