Re: [Evolution] Problems with Contacts/poc

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 07:33 -0800, Brewster Gillett wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 09:36 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 22:05 -0800, Brewster Gillett wrote:
> > > BTW I still have not found out what Evo did to an entire Inbox of
> > > several hundred messages, 23 of them unread, that just disappeared
> > > yesterday. I'm beginning to wonder if I should be using it at all at
> > > this rate.
> >
> > Try this:
> >
> >         Stop Evo.
> >         Remove index files.
> >         Restart.
> >         
> > poc
>
> Brewster:
>
> Okay, Patrick, here are the files in question:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -rw-r--r-- 1 wbg wbg 2087075 2009-11-06 07:03 Inbox
> -rw-r--r-- 1 wbg wbg      40 2009-11-06 07:21 Inbox.cmeta
> -rw------- 1 wbg wbg  286720 2009-11-06 06:44 Inbox.ibex.index
> -rw------- 1 wbg wbg  224156 2009-11-06 06:44 Inbox.ibex.index.data
>
> Inbox.sbd:
> total 186632
> -rw-r--r-- 1 wbg wbg 185954553 2009-11-04 12:27 Inbox
> -rw-r--r-- 1 wbg wbg       177 2009-11-06 07:19 Inbox.cmeta
> -rw------- 1 wbg wbg   1434624 2009-11-04 07:44 Inbox.ibex.index
> -rw------- 1 wbg wbg   3511456 2009-11-04 07:44 Inbox.ibex.index.data
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

You can remove anything with an extension except for .sbd (which is
itself a directory). Evo will recreate what it needs.

If you're nervous, make a copy of everything first. Remember to stop Evo
with --force-shutdown before doing anything.

> I believe, based on the above size numbers, that the location of the
> missing messages is the "subsidiary", which BTW Evo created
> without my asking it to when it was hijacking the move icon 
> off & on all day Wednesday,

You may have inadvertently created an additional folder. In any case,
clean up the indices (in both directories) before reorganizing.

poc