Re: [Evolution] Strange behaviour

[Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee gmail com>]

On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 16:29 -0800, Brewster Gillett wrote:
> Just installed 2.28,1 and Ubuntu 9.10 - upgrades from 9.04.
> I am panicked - seeing something I have *never* seen in an email
> program, Have been getting strange behaviour that is interpreting
> mouse clicks as move instructions - and it's been moving stuff around
> without being asked to. Including entire folders. The end point here,
> and what has me really spooked, is that it managed to completely
> hide the main Inbox (after putting it elsewhere, and my putting
> it back, except that it didn't put it at the top level but placed
> it under the empty Inbox )- but here's the bizarre aspect - 
> You know how the folder list puts a number in bold next to the
> folder name indicating unread messages? This Inbox-under-Inbox
> folder is displaying 23 unread messages, but the folder is empty.
>
> I have looked at every other folder and subfolder to try to find where
> the several hundred accumulated inbox messages have gone. No luck.
> But this bit of showing the unread number by the folder, but with
> nothing in the folder, has me terrified. And I ain't easily terrified -
> I've been using email for almost 30 years.
>
> I have a lot of messages in that missing folder that I really cannot
> afford to lose, some of which came in since my weekly backup. Anything
> before last Thursday I can restore without much difficulty, but I'm
> worried about those since Thursday.
>
> Any ideas?


They could just be hidden. Try going to View->Show Hidden Messages