Re: [Evolution] Help! No email folders available!

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 09:37, Grant Rutherford wrote:
[snip]
> > try the following commands in a terminal, after quitting evolution:
> >
> > cd
> > evolution --force-shutdown
>
> There was an error with this command:
>
> Error on option --force-shutdown: unknown option.
> Run 'evolution --help' to see a full list of available command line options.

this means you aren't running evolution 1.4, you must be trying to run
an old version.

`killev` is the equivalent command on older versions.

> > gconftool-2 --shutdown
> > mv .gconf/apps/evolution/mail .gconf/apps/evolution/mail.save
>
> This folder doesn't exist on my apps directory (/evolution).  Will I have to 
> get root access to do this?

again, old version.

killall -9 bonobo-moniker-xmldb (or some such, `ps aux` to find the
actual process name)

then `mv ~/evolution/config.xmldb ~/evolution/config.xmldb.save`

> > gconftool-2 --spawn
> > evolution
> >
> > It will ask you to setup an account from scratch again, which you will
> > have to re-enter.
> >
> > If things still don't work right, and you had any errors from the above
> > commands other than the shutdown ones, paste them here.
> >
> > NOTE!  This will effectively 'remove' or 'reset' all of your accounts,
> > so you will be reprompted to set up a new one.  They are backed up in
> > mail.save if you need to return to them, basically repeat the above
> > commands but reverse the mv command after removing the existing mail
> > directory first.
> >
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Grant
> > >
> > >
> > > > From: Not Zed <notzed ximian com>
> > > > To: Grant Rutherford <grantrutherford hotmail com>
> > > > CC: evolution lists ximian com
> > > > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Help! No email folders available!
> > > > Date: 17 Jul 2003 10:39:55 +0930
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 02:15, Grant Rutherford wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for the ideas...  I just tried quitting evolution and KDE and
> > > > > removing all files from the /tmp/orbit-grant directory.  I then 
> > started
> > > > KDE
> > > > > and evolution again, and have noticed no change.  (Although some new
> > > > files
> > > > > have been created in that directory)
> > > > >
> > > > > Is it possible that the server still thinks that I am logged on to
> > > > > evolution, so it won't allow a 'second' login?
> > > >
> > > > No probably not, you'd get different errors I think.
> > > >
> > > > Does running this (in a terminal) produce any output?
> > > >
> > > > gconftool-2 -R /apps/evolution/mail
> > > >
> > > > Could you attach it to a private email to me if it does.
> > > >
> > > > If it doesn't then gconf is really unhappy about something, and i'm not
> > > > sure where you'd go from here.
> > > >
> > > >  Michael
> > > >
> > > >
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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