Re: [Evolution] Disaster strikes -- 4000 messages deleted

[Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh pacbell net>]

On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 19:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 16:03 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > Did you follow the instructions on the tin, i.e. run Vacuum with Evo
> > > completely shut down?
> >
> > I don't remember, but I suspect evolution *was* running
>
> If so, that would explain why the db got messed up. For future
> reference: *always* run "evolution --force-shutdown" before doing
> anything that touches the Evo files.
>
> (Old Unix saying: Everyone runs "rm -rf /" ... once)
>
> As to rebuilding the db, as long as the actual messages are there (or
> can be recovered from your backup) you can just delete the
> various .cmeta and .index files and Evo will recreate them when it
> starts up.

Thanks, worked like a champ.  Also performance much improved and a few
old messages, apparently lost in the cracks, turned up in the Junk
folder.

jon