Re: [Evolution] What happened to Evolution?

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 09:29 -0500, Darren Govoni wrote:
> Well, I think it happened when it was hung on 'Storing folder' when
> downloading messages for a very long time and I canceled it. The
> dialog hung and I brought the app down hard. Ok, generally not a good
> thing, but it was hung.

        Hi,
hmm, that might broke your folders.db file(s) and explain all the issues
you are experiencing.

> After that I couldn't open my Inbox folder. I could open others
> though. After almost every receive mail action, I get errors storing
> folder. And the folder rotates around. Not always the same. The error
> dialog for that claims something about a 'column name'.

Heh, exact message would be good too, but as long as it sounds like the
DB corruption...

> When downloading messages from a single POP endpoint, it goes into
> 'Storing folder (0%-100%)' over and over. Not sure what that is and
> why it does it every time.

Please go to
~/.local/share/evolution/mail
where are 'pop' and 'local' folders, where each contains a folders.db
file. Could you try to stop evolution and then move away (not delete,
just in case something will be worse) those two folders.db files away,
and then run evolution again, to see whether it'll be better, when the
files will be regenerated from scratch, please?

Also, I believe no ACID may help you when you are killing hung
application "in the middle of its operation". :)
        Bye,
        Milan