On Thu, 2019-04-18 at 09:52 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote: > On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 07:20 -0400, John Sauter wrote: > > I noticed something unusual in the left pane of Evolution. After > > my > > e- mail accounts but before "Search Folders" there is a line > > "local_mbox". > > Hi, > that's the backup evolution was talking about before the migration. > You > can see it in Edit->Preferences->Mail Accounts too. > > > When I click on it, it reveals no contents. > > This is odd. The listing you gave suggests it's a maildir structure, > thus what really had been in ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/. > You > mentioned a power failure, maybe the account is not set properly. You > can create a new mail account of type "Maildir-format mail > directories" > and point it to this backup, which should show you the files again. > If > not, then delete the folders.db file from that folder (or rather more > it away) and start evolution, which will recreate it. > > I do not know why you've been asked for the migration, that might be > some fault on the disk or something. The content of the "..maildir++" > file in there is important. A similar file should be seen in the > ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/. > Bye, > Milan
Something in my Evolution data apparently became corrupted. I
tried deleting ~/.cache/evolution and restoring
~/.local/share/evolution/ and .config/evolution/ from an April 10
backup, but when I start Evolution it still insists on trying to
convert my files to maildir format, and failing after printing this
message to the system log: "migrate_mbox_to_maildir: Failed to make
directory '/home/jsauter/.local/share/evolution/mail/local': File
exists". I concluded that my April 10 backup was already corrupt.
I was able to restore my data from an April 8 evolution backup. Having
done that I created a new account of type "Maildir-format mail
directories" (thank you for the hint, I didn't know that was possible).
I moved all of my local data from On This Computer to that account,
which I put on a disk that I back up regularly. My evolution backups
are now much smaller.
Thank you all for your help.
John Sauter (john_sau...@systemeyescomputerstore.com)
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