Re: [Evolution] Involuntary folder relocations

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 12:01 -0700, Brewster Gillett wrote:
> Like probably many of you, I have a love-hate relationship with Evo, 

Not I, no hate at all.

> It's a very capable and comprehensive program

yes, it does.

> , but it does seem to love to put a stick in your spokes when you
> least expect it.  Evolution 3.2.3 under Ubuntu 12.04.

In general it seems that software packaged with Ubuntu is quite thorny.

> Evo has decided, not based AFAIK on any action(s) I took, to move some
> of my folders to entirely different and random spots, and random orders,
> in the folder tree.

Yeah.... I really doubt that.

>  This would be largely unobjectionable if it would
> allow me to move them all back where they belong, but it does not.
> I will try to lay out a comprehensive description - bear with me.
> EXAMPLE:
> The folder "Forms-l", originally located under "On This Computer",
> originally had two sub-folders situated under it in the tree; 
> "F-L vetting", and "F-Larchives". For arcane reasons of its own, Evo
> has moved all three and rearranged them, so that now "Forms-l" and
> "FL vetting" are resting under "Health", and "FLarchives", mirable
> dictu, still occupies its traditional place just under "Forms-l".
> So I'm thinking, I will just move them back where they belong.
> Not so fast, sez Evo. Here's the sequence I performed:
> (1) Moving "FL vetting" back under "Forms-l".
> * highlight "FL vetting"
> * click FOLDER 
> * click MOVE FOLDER TO...
> * highlight "Forms-l"
> * click "Move"
> And it worked. "Forms-l" now shows its two subfolders under it where
> they belong. Now to move "Forms-l" back to where *it* belongs:
> * highlight "Forms-l"
> * click FOLDER 
> * click MOVE FOLDER TO...
> * highlight "On This Computer"
> * click "Move"
> And nothing happens - no move takes place, *AND* I get the yellow bar
> at the top of the screen which usually denotes some form of error
> message, but with nothing in it except the "Dismiss" block.
> I considered the possibility that Evo is lumbered with a bug which does
> not allow it to "MOVE" folders which have subfolders. But testing has
> shown that unlikely, because it is also refusing to move folders with
> *no* subs under them.
> BTW the affected folders also have filter rules applied to them, so
> naturally the filter rules subroutine is not finding them, meaning that
> until I solve this, I have to hunt or do search through "Inbox" to
> get their traffic.
> I've looked through what FAQs I could find, and did not find this
> problem addressed. Anyone have any ideas?

I've seen some occasional oddities with IMAP folder moves - but then who
knows who to blame...  I do not recall every seeing an issue with local
"On this computer" folders.

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Adam Tauno Williams  GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA