On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 22:56 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 07:04 -0400, John Sauter wrote: > > I am running Evolution version 3.30.5 (3.30.5-1.fc29) on the Fedora > > distribution of GNU/Linux. Recently Evolution asked if it could > > perform a migration, and assured me that a copy of my data would be > > preserved. I allowed it. > > If you did not use version 2.32 (migration from mbox to maildir > format) > or version 3.6 (migration from ~/.evolution to XDG standard folders) > before, then I have no idea what kind of "migration" this refers to.
The migration message said something about conversion to maildir format, if I remember correctly. > > Later I noticed that all of my local folders, where I keep old e- > > mails > > that I might want to reference later, had disappeared from "On This > > Computer". > > What kind of email account type were these e-mails from? POP? IMAP? These were from an IMAP account. > Which folders are still there and displayed under "On This Computer"? "On This Computer" has Inbox, Drafts, Junk, Outbox, Sent, Templates and Trash. All of these folders are empty. > > I poked around in > > ~/.local/share/evolution/mail and found a directory named > > 9d8ea32ba2403d0384ee571755fb07b1045001c2. Within that directory > > is > > all of my old local folders. How do I access them from evolution? > > Probably by moving them under ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/ if > you are really sure that they were under "On This Computer" before. > But > before trying that I'd first love to see my questions above answered. I will wait for your response before moving the files. After I gave permission for the migration I was away from the computer for several hours. During that time there was a short power failure which caused the computer to reboot. > andre > -- > Andre Klapper | ak...@gmx.net > https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ Thank you for your response. John Sauter (john_sau...@systemeyescomputerstore.com) -- PGP fingerprint E24A D25B E5FE 4914 A603 49EC 7030 3EA1 9A0B 511E
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