Re: [Evolution] lost local folders when migrating data



On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 18:25 -0400, John Sauter wrote:
On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 22:56 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 07:04 -0400, John Sauter wrote:
I am running Evolution version 3.30.5 (3.30.5-1.fc29) on the
Fedora
distribution of GNU/Linux.  Recently Evolution asked if it could
perform a migration, and assured me that a copy of my data would
be
preserved.  I allowed it.

If you did not use version 2.32 (migration from mbox to maildir
format)
or version 3.6 (migration from ~/.evolution to XDG standard
folders)
before, then I have no idea what kind of "migration" this refers
to.

The migration message said something about conversion to maildir
format, if I remember correctly.

Later I noticed that all of my local folders, where I keep old e-
mails
that I might want to reference later, had disappeared from "On
This
Computer".

What kind of email account type were these e-mails from? POP? IMAP?

These were from an IMAP account.

Which folders are still there and displayed under "On This
Computer"?

"On This Computer" has Inbox, Drafts, Junk, Outbox, Sent, Templates
and
Trash.  All of these folders are empty.

I poked around in
~/.local/share/evolution/mail and found a directory named
9d8ea32ba2403d0384ee571755fb07b1045001c2.   Within that directory
is
all of my old local folders.  How do I access them from
evolution?

Probably by moving them under ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/
if
you are really sure that they were under "On This Computer" before.
But
before trying that I'd first love to see my questions above
answered.

I will wait for your response before moving the files.

After I gave permission for the migration I was away from the
computer
for several hours.  During that time there was a short power failure
which caused the computer to reboot.

andre
--
Andre Klapper  |  ak-47 gmx net
https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

Thank you for your response.

I noticed something unusual in the left pane of Evolution.  After my e-
mail accounts but before "Search Folders" there is a line "local_mbox".
When I click on it, it reveals no contents.  Asking for its properties
brings up the Account Editor, but the account appears to be blank. 
However, when I click on "Send / Receive" it appears in the "Send &
Receive Mail" popup with a file path that appears to be (from the quick
glimpse I can get of it) the 9d8ea32ba2403d0384ee571755fb07b1045001c2
directory mentioned above.  "local_mbox" also appears in the dropdown
under "Send / Receive" after my e-mail accounts.

Just in case it is relavent, I have attached the output of "ls -al"
directed at the 9d8ea32ba2403d0384ee571755fb07b1045001c2 directory.
    John Sauter (John_Sauter systemeyescomputerstore com)
-- 
PGP fingerprint E24A D25B E5FE 4914 A603  49EC 7030 3EA1 9A0B 511E

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