I am still having problems getting KMail to use my data from before my
desktop died.
I have now successfully copied an intact copy of the Mail folder
~/Mail) from a backup to my present setup. I have checked, and my
folders and emails at least are there.
But KMail won't use them/doesn't see them. This is the method I have
always used before, that has always worked before. I am desperate to
be able to use KMail again, but daren't just set it up because I am
then going to be faced with losing everything that I do now, if I ever
succeed in restoring the stuff from the past.
I thought of purging and reinstalling KMail and starting again, but
that would remove 383 packages, and I am somewhat chary therefore of
doing it.
~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail in the new set-up has:
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/drafts
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.drafts.index
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.drafts.index.ids
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.inbox.index
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.inbox.index.ids
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/outbox
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.outbox.index
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.outbox.index.ids
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/sent-mail
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.sent-mail.index
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.sent-mail.index.ids
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/templates
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.templates.index
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.templates.index.ids
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/trash
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.trash.index
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.trash.index.ids
There is now no error message about indices, but it looks to me as
though this directory is at the root of the problem.
I have renamed it and started KMail, and it just regenerates it the
same, and still doesn't use the available data, but kmail gives:
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/autosave
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/autosave.index.ids
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/$name%40gmail.com:%40pop.gmail.com:995
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/$name%40googlemail.com:%40pop.gmail.com:995
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/$name:%40pop.gmail.com:995
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/dimap
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/$name%40gmail.com:%40pop.gmail.com:995
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/$name%40googlemail.com:%40pop.gmail.com:995
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/elizabeth.reisz:%40pop.gmail.com:995
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/$name%40googlemail.com:%40pop.gmail.com:995
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/imap
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/kmmainwin.rc
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/lisi%40$name.myzen.co.uk:%40mailhost.zen.co.uk:110
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/lisi.reisz%40gmail.com:%40pop.gmail.com:995
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/lisi.reisz:%40pop.gmail.com:995
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/lisi.t155:%40pop.gmail.com:995
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/lock
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail.old
file:///home/lisi/.kde/share/apps/kmail/search
Help!! I really need my KMail stuff! How do I persuade KMail to use it?
Lisi
I just installed TDE 3.5.15 on a fresh wheezy box (T61p, kernel 3.*, nvidia
drivers). Funny thing, anything worked, after I got rid of all KDE4 libs
which caused a blue screen with cursor after login otherwise.
The only issue I did not find a reason for is that
$HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs gets overwritten with all folders set to $HOME:
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME"
So this causes TDE to assume the desktop folder is the useres home directory.
I can change that dir to "$HOME/Desktop" and apply the immutable flag to the
file to prevent it beeing overwritten at login - the fiole is overwritten at
each login somewhere before TDE reads it.
Now my question is, what when why is this file written? It's a bit anoying
when you stumble upon that problem :-)
Nik
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