On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 09:08 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been suffering very slow startup times by > evolution mail recently, and I > see headers for emails, and I see emails, but the two don't match. > > I concluded that the indexes on my inbox are messed up. > > I found in the FAQ this suggestion, which seemed like a good way to get the > indexes cleaned up. > > Why do I get an error "Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync"? > If you get an error popup like: > "Error while Expunging folder. Error storing > `~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox (mbox)': Summary and folder mismatch, > even after a sync.". Try the following operations: > * Stop evolution completly with the command "evolution > --force-shutdown" > * Remove the corresponding files with the file ending > ".ev-summary" and ".ibex.index", in this example you should remove the > file "~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.ev-summary" and > "~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.idex.index". > * Restart evolution, it will be slow to come up because it recreates > the indexes. Well, I did that, and now it doesn't come up "ever" that is, I > started it, and it gave it's usual messages about "storing folder 2% > complete" and 18 hours later, it's still saying the exact same thing. > > Help please :) I'd really like to get my inbox back if I can, and no, last > week's backup isn't much use, because all this week's emails aren't in it! > > BTW, this is Evolution 2.22.1.1 on OpenSuSE 11.0. > > Many thanks in advance for any help.
2.22 is a bit old. If possible, upgrade to version 2.24.3 (released a few days ago). It seems to have improvements in several areas that could help you. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
