Re: [Evolution] Help with corrupted mbox

[NotZed <notzed ximian com>]

Try removing the mbox.ev-summary file.


> Hello,
> I did a very stupid thing and now I need help pulling my can out of the
> fire.   I am using Beta 3 (0.13) and today I got a piece of junk mail
> that would hang Evo whenever I tried to open or delete it.  So I decided
> to open my mbox folder in VI and delete the message manually.  I did
> that, but when I went back into Evo it game me an error about not being
> able to find message ID 2950, or any message after that.  And when it
> tries to synch the mbox it tells me there is an error.  Now the stupid
> part is that I did not make a backup of the mbox file before I started
> messing with it.
>
> Can someone help me get this straigtened out?  I think I need to
> renumber the messages in mbox so it can associate them correctly.
> However if this can't be done, is there a way to salvage the messages
> before the problem message?  This problem is only affecting 15-20
> messages that arrived today, and most of them aren't important.  If I
> have to lose them that is fine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aaron
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