Re: [Evolution] upgrade to 1.4: where'd my mail go

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

did you install XD2? I've heard that "Installing Evolution without
installing XD2 is asking for problems", so just checking.

if you have, please send us backtraces of your crashes so we can fix
them.

Jeff

On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 00:13, Sean R. Kirkpatrick wrote:
> Yup, under the folder tree I see the folders themselves, but opening one
> of them known to have (or supposed to have) filed mail shows nothing at
> all. Yet, way down under the evo/mail dir I can find the actual contents
> that should be there.
>
> "Warnings" are somewhat peculiar. I get no errors at all during startup.
> But ever since I upgraded (with red-carpet the other day), various
> components of evo have been crashing left and right. There seems to be
> no rhyme or reason in how and when things crash - just this morning
> while updating a contact, it crashed. Yesterday composing a reply, it
> crashed. Sometimes the component dies, other times the entire app dies. 
>
> This is very onerous - I've got semesters worth of email from students
> that I need to get access to.
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
>       Sean
>
>
> On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 20:21, Not Zed wrote:
> > I presume you mean under the folder tree?
> >
> > All i can think of is that the 'folder-metadata.xml' files in each
> > directory are somehow emptied or broken.
> >
> > Any warnings when you start it from a terminal?
> >
> >
> > They should contain something like this (for each folder):
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <efolder>
> >  <type>mail</type
> >  <description>Some description</description>
> > </efolder>
> >
> > (at least, for mail folders)
> >
> > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 02:06, Sean R. Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > > I just upgraded to evo 1.4 via red-carpet and *all* of my filed mail
> > > disappeared. Drilling down into the evolution/mail directory I see that
> > > it's all still there, but I can't see it in the folders in evo. What
> > > happened?
> > >
> > >   Sean
> > >
> > >
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