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

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

> mbox is huge, 25M or so as I would expect it to be. So the data is still
> there (whew!)

Ahh, good to hear.

> Looking into some of the other folders I can make out much the same as
> in Sent, including subfolders.
>
> So I guess the puzzle is, how come the messages prior to the upgrade
> have disappeared from the folders list in evo? Is there a master index
> or something? 

Hmm, someone else reported something similar.  Try removing the
mbox.ev-summary file(s).  They contain an index of all messages in the
mailbox.

I have one possible idea ...

There looks like there's a bug in the mailbox summary code that stores
the folder size as a 32 bit int on disk, but a size_t in memory.  That
could lead to odd things happening, but on the other hand it should just
recover itself automagically too.

And another bug i see, the code to write out off_t's and time_t's
doesn't use a self-describing compressed format like the code to write
out 32 bit ints (different from the one above which is fixed-size for
the header), so they could also cause problems.

Maybe the packages are being built with different build flags (64 bit
files?), or something.

> > "Warnings" are somewhat peculiar. I get no errors at all during startup.
> > ...
> > > crashed. Sometimes the component dies, other times the entire app dies. 
> >
> > You have to run it in a terminal to see the warnings?
>
> The upgrade initially broke the link to the icon - it wouldn't launch at
> all. Launching from a terminal window would bring it up, but I got
> absolutely no error messages or warnings at all, but I then had the
> sporadic crashes I mentioned previously. OTOH, I've now been pounding on
> it for a couple of hours and things seem to be stable. I'll try to send
> traces if I get another crash.

Ahah, very odd.

> > Also, if you have important data, you should always back it up (you
> > never know when a hdd will die, for example).
> So right, and indeed I do have the data elsewhere (it just lives in a
> big archive file on the server, courtesy of procmail.) But the mere
> thought of having to paw through Gbytes just to find that one message
> makes me shiver. I suppose it's time to dust off grepmail :-)

Sometimes its good just to let go ... :)

 Z