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

2009-08-25 Thread Reid Thompson
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 21:26 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: > 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 t

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

2009-08-25 Thread Chris G
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 04:04:42PM -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > 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

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] 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
tchalkboard.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/archive-e-mails-in-evolution-ubuntu-8-049-04/ greetings, M.Kojak.S -Original Message- From: Jonathan Ryshpan To: evolution-list@gnome.org Subject: [Evolution] Disaster strikes -- 4000 messages deleted Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:35:01 -0700 One o

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