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

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 13:43, 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.

It should be under ~/evolution/local/

The ~/evolution/mail directory is used for various meta-data purposes.

> "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. 

You have to run it in a terminal to see the warnings?

> This is very onerous - I've got semesters worth of email from students
> that I need to get access to.

It would be very very unlikely that the mail has been physically lost.


Also, if you have important data, you should always back it up (you
never know when a hdd will die, for example).