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Bug 554990 - Evolution Mail and Calendar: Corruption in folder. Af...
Evolution Mail and Calendar: Corruption in folder. Af...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: BugBuddyBugs
2.24.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evolution Triage Team
Evolution QA team
evolution[disk-summary]
: 554991 554992 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 543389
 
 
Reported: 2008-10-04 12:55 UTC by cgb
Modified: 2009-04-13 06:18 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24


Description cgb 2008-10-04 12:55:39 UTC 
Corruption in folder. After erasing all messages, I am unable to delete it.


Distribution: Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid)
Gnome Release: 2.24.0 2008-09-22 (Ubuntu)
BugBuddy Version: 2.24.0
Comment 1 André Klapper 2008-10-04 16:56:47 UTC 
*** Bug 554991 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 André Klapper 2008-10-04 16:56:51 UTC 
*** Bug 554992 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Srinivasa Ragavan 2008-10-06 09:45:47 UTC 
cgb, Can you be ellaborate? What error does it report?
Comment 4 cgb 2008-10-07 00:59:28 UTC 
I had a number of problems after upgrading to version 2.24.0 (as in Ubuntu Intrepid). My mail was imported from the previous version but I believe that the process did not run properly.

As a consequence, there were a number of mails in my trash folder that did not relate to any message in any other folder. 

Trying to expunge other folders leaded to either crashes, error messages or, simply, nothing.

I could finally solve the problem by deleting the folders.db file by hand. It was recreated again and everything worked from that point onwards.

I guess that such file keeps track of "deleted" but "not expunged" messages. Perhaps this operation is not performed properly after an upgrade. Perhaps you could "expunge" messages after the upgrade before importing the mail folders.
Comment 5 Srinivasa Ragavan 2008-10-07 05:45:30 UTC 
you deleted folders.db from which folder?

It is possible that migration was buggy, did the summary recreation helped you? Are there any other issues that you face now ? Incase you see a crash, can you get me the traces?
Comment 6 cgb 2008-10-12 14:28:26 UTC 
From ~/.evolution/mail/local

I think that folders.db in that directory was not created properly
during the upgrade. After I erased it:

1) Some erased messages appeared in my folders again (not big problem).

2) I could clean up the Trash folder.

3) The file was recreated.
Comment 7 Srinivasa Ragavan 2008-10-13 06:46:09 UTC 
>1) Some erased messages appeared in my folders again (not big problem).

Even now? Does this mean that your deleted mails are appearing now?
Comment 8 Srinivasa Ragavan 2009-01-29 16:56:51 UTC 
Any updates? 2.24.3 has lots of fixes, can you try with it?
Comment 9 Akhil Laddha 2009-03-03 04:38:56 UTC 
Can you please try in 2.24.4 or 2.24.5 and report back, thanks.
Comment 10 Akhil Laddha 2009-04-13 06:18:20 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug; however, closing due to lack of
response of the reporter, sorry. if you still see this issue with a current
release of evolution (2.26.0 or later), please reopen. thanks in advance.