Re: [Evolution] Disaster strikes -- 4000 messages deleted

2009-08-24 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 19:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 16:03 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > Did you follow the instructions on the tin, i.e. run Vacuum with Evo > > > completely shut down? > > > > I don't remember, but I suspect evolution *was* running > > If

Re: [Evolution] Disaster strikes -- 4000 messages deleted

2009-08-24 Thread Reid Thompson
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 18:10 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: One of my important folders , containing about 4000 messages, was moved into a subfolder of another folder and all the messages in were deleted. The messages are truly gone; unchecking "Hid

Re: [Evolution] scalabilty issues resolved in next major release (2.6.28)?

2009-08-24 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 18:01 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > If there are 418389 messages in total, of which 418344 are unread, then > that means you've read 45 of them, doesn't it? LOL. Yeah, that's what the counts are saying. As I have maintained, they are way wrong, have been since the sql

Re: [Evolution] Disaster strikes -- 4000 messages deleted

2009-08-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 16:03 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Did you follow the instructions on the tin, i.e. run Vacuum with Evo > > completely shut down? > > I don't remember, but I suspect evolution *was* running If so, that would explain why the db got messed up. For future reference: *alwa

Re: [Evolution] Disaster strikes -- 4000 messages deleted

2009-08-24 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 16:17 -0600, Kojak T wrote: > How was your Back-up made? > from within Evolution, or just a copy of the folder? > > personally, I use the internal back-up in Evolution to one file as > extra, and use rsync to an external drive. > Actually I do that for my complete /home fo

Re: [Evolution] Disaster strikes -- 4000 messages deleted

2009-08-24 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 18:10 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > One of my important folders , containing about 4000 messages, was > > moved into a subfolder of another folder and all the messages in > > were deleted. The messages are truly gone; unchecking "Hide Deleted > >

Re: [Evolution] Disaster strikes -- 4000 messages deleted

2009-08-24 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 17:42 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 14:35 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > This may possibly be related to some maintenance I did on evolution > > just before this happened, namely emptying the trash (File->Empty > > Trash) and vacuuming the datab

Re: [Evolution] Disaster strikes -- 4000 messages deleted

2009-08-24 Thread Kojak T
How was your Back-up made? from withing Evolution, or just a copy of the folder? personally, I use the internal back-up in Evolution to one file as extra, and use rsync to an external drive. Actually I do hat for my complete /home folder except my virtual machines. I run that every day, it wi

Re: [Evolution] Disaster strikes -- 4000 messages deleted

2009-08-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 14:35 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > This may possibly be related to some maintenance I did on evolution > just before this happened, namely emptying the trash (File->Empty > Trash) and vacuuming the database (as shown at the bottom). Did you follow the instructions on the

Re: [Evolution] Disaster strikes -- 4000 messages deleted

2009-08-24 Thread Reid Thompson
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: One of my important folders , containing about 4000 messages, was moved into a subfolder of another folder and all the messages in were deleted. The messages are truly gone; unchecking "Hide Deleted Messages" does not show them. What type of account is Phred in? IMAP,

[Evolution] Disaster strikes -- 4000 messages deleted

2009-08-24 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
One of my important folders , containing about 4000 messages, was moved into a subfolder of another folder and all the messages in were deleted. The messages are truly gone; unchecking "Hide Deleted Messages" does not show them. Fortunately I have a backup of my entire system as of just before t

Re: [Evolution] scalabilty issues resolved in next major release (2.6.28)?

2009-08-24 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
2009/8/24 Brian J. Murrell : > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 15:03 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: >> [snip] "...aggregates all of my newsgroups says there are 418389 messages in >> it >> with 418344 unread (i.e. only 5 unread messages -- yeah right).  However >> I know the difference bet..." [snip] >>

Re: [Evolution] scalabilty issues resolved in next major release (2.6.28)?

2009-08-24 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 15:03 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > Peter and Brian: I think you should reserve your angry complaints to > your resellers, if any. Huh? > Brian: Your bug report 582945, is one that requires quite a bit of > work just to reproduce Not at all. Simply subscribe to a bun

Re: [Evolution] scalabilty issues resolved in next major release (2.6.28)?

2009-08-24 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Peter and Brian: I think you should reserve your angry complaints to your resellers, if any. Brian: Your bug report 582945, is one that requires quite a bit of work just to reproduce and the very nature of the bug might prevent it from getting a very high priority. You say it only affects users wi

Re: [Evolution] scalabilty issues resolved in next major release (2.6.28)?

2009-08-24 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 21:53 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Your BZ report talks about issues with large newsgroups. Indeed. > Are you seeing > the same with large mail folders? I don't have any/enough mail folders that compete with the quantity/size of newsgroups. > I have one IMAP fold