Re: [Evolution] email missing from .evolution backup folder

["carpetnailz researchintegration org" <carpetnailz researchintegration org>]

On 9/21/2011 2:55 PM, carpetnailz researchintegration org wrote:
> On 9/21/2011 2:32 PM, carpetnailz researchintegration org wrote:
> > On 9/21/2011 2:19 PM, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 14:09 -0400, carpetnailz researchintegration org
> > > wrote:
> > > > On 9/21/2011 12:38 PM, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > > > > I just filed a bug about this, but it's too late for 3.2 now.
> > > > >
> > > > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659742
> > > > So where are my email and calendar entries from the past two weeks? I
> > > > have a backup of my .evolution folder, but it's not there.  Where is
> > > > they kept, so I can recover them? I have a full rdiff-backup backup of
> > > > my old home directory, but I can't find them anywhere there.
> > > >
> > > > Btw, I was using a completely updated version of Ubuntu 10.04 and 
> > > > it was
> > > > still keeping all my email in ~/.evolution.
> > > A "completely updated version of Ubuntu 10.04" still means an 18-month
> > > old version of Evolution.  We've moved the files since then.  See the
> > > bug for details.
> > Both ~/.local/share/evolution and ~/.cache/evolution are empty on the 
> > backup I did yesterday before I reformatted by HDD. Where are my emails?
> > ______________________________________________
> I think I found them on the backup when I went in from the command 
> line as root. For some reason the files did not copy from the backup 
> when I told it 'cp -R * /home/eric' as root.
>
> Should I just copy the .local/share/evolution folder to replace the 
> existing one on my new installation?
> _______________________________________________
Well I went ahead and did just copy the evolution directory over to my 
new install. Then chmod and then Evolution seems to have successfully 
converted to the new format.

Whew! some scary moments earlier.

Thanks for the help.