Re: [Evolution] Need help fixing corrupt folders/indexes?

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 09:08 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been suffering very slow startup times by
> evolution mail recently, and I
> see headers for emails, and I see emails, but the two don't match.
>
> I concluded that the indexes on my inbox are messed up.
>
> I found in the FAQ this suggestion, which seemed like a good way to get the indexes cleaned up.
>
> Why do I get an error "Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync"? 
> If you get an error popup like:
> "Error while Expunging folder. Error storing
> `~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox (mbox)': Summary and folder mismatch,
> even after a sync.". Try the following operations: 
>       * Stop evolution completly with the command "evolution --force-shutdown" 
>       * Remove the corresponding files with the file ending
> ".ev-summary" and ".ibex.index", in this example you should remove the
> file "~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.ev-summary" and
> "~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.idex.index". 
>       * Restart evolution, it will be slow to come up because it recreates the indexes. Well, I did that, 
> and now it doesn't come up "ever" that is, I started it, and it gave it's usual messages  about "storing 
> folder 2% complete" and 18 hours later, it's still saying the exact same thing. 
>
> Help please :) I'd really like to get my inbox back if I can, and no, last week's backup isn't much use, 
> because all this week's emails aren't in it!
>
> BTW, this is Evolution 2.22.1.1 on OpenSuSE 11.0.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any help.

2.22 is a bit old. If possible, upgrade to version 2.24.3 (released a
few days ago). It seems to have improvements in several areas that could
help you.

poc