Re: [Evolution] Folder contents have disappeared and new error

[Harvey Nimmo <harvey nimmo de>]

Frankly, it was a mess. But I have now sorted it out.  I believe, what I should not have done, was to have tried to add the exchange account via the Evolution preferences menu. As I see it, the correct approach with my configuration was
1. Install evolution-ews
2. Add the exchange account via gnome system preferences -> on-line accounts

Evolution-ews seems to pick up that account entry, add it to its account list and everything works perfectly thereafter!

(I am running 
Opensuse Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit 
Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop 
GNOME 3.6.2 with Evolution 3.6.4)

Unless I have overlooked something, the whole mess with adding the account via the Evolution preferences seemed obvious but was, apparently, not the way to do it

Anyway, my problem is now solved 

Many thanks for your help

Cheers
Harvey

On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 09:06 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 12:56 -0400, Alan Finger wrote:
> > he reported error was "Cannot get folder
> > '/home/myName/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.NameOfFolder': not a
> > maildir directory.".
>
> 	Hi,
> the error can be shown with various circumstances. One way the
> evolution(-data-server) code recognizes a maildir folder is that it
> contains three subfolders: cur, new and tmp. If any of these is missing,
> then you get a similar error.
>
> It seems to me that your migration to maildir didn't work properly. In
> case you still see old mbox files (one file for folder, contains all the
> folder content), then you can open it with a custom account which would
> point to the respective file, but those files are probably obsolete
> anyway, you might have more recent content in the to-be-maildir folders.
>
> I would try the above add subfolders thing, as the first step.
> 	Bye,
> 	Milan
>
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