Re: [Evolution] GUI question: clearing Inbox messages

[jim <jim well com>]

My responses interspersed below, and thank you! 

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 11:43 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:28 -0700, jim wrote:
> > A couple of times I've had the troubling experience 
> > that while mousing about the mail GUI, much or all of 
> > the contents of the Inbox (current folder) inadvertently 
> > disappears. I certainly did not deliberately highlight 
> > and delete, and seems unlikely to have done so without 
> > knowing. 
> >    I've used the command line to investigate: no clue. 
> > It seems messages have been erased, not moved. Note that 
> > not all messages are affected. 
> >    Can't find clues in Evolution Help. 
> >    What mouse or mouse-keyboard events select and clear 
> > contents of mail folders? 
>
> Select-All + Delete + Expunge
JS: i certainly did not do this. 
> Which is pretty hard to do inadvertently.
>
> I've accidentally switched the search filter or category filter before
> and made everything *appear* to disappear. 
JS: i have defined no filters or categories. this seems 
something to chase down, but after looking i don't find 
any history of such (that would have been inadvertently 
made or some action taken on some default with just one 
or two keyboard strokes and mouse clicks). 
> I've never had mailbox contents unintentionally go-away.
JS: this is the second (or third) time i've experienced 
this. Currently: Ubuntu 10.04 and Evolution 2.28.3; 
Formerly: Can't remember but certainly Ubuntu 8.X or 9.X 
and the default Evolution + standard patches.