Update!!!! I started recovering the file with gzrt, et. al. https://www.aaronrenn.com/arenn/hacking/gzrt/gzrt.html and am getting closer. So anyone who falls into such a hole may find some salvation.
However, and for the list: Recovering with gzrt and cpio gave me some error messages that certain (lots of) files/folders couldn't be created because they already existed. That made me think the recover commands I had entered attempted to recreate the mail and data in my existing Evolution. So I did another Evolution backup (shame on me) of the existing Evolution data, to the same external hard drive, and then tried recover - thinking I would remove Evolution and reinstall it with no data. I tested the backup .tar.gz to be careful, but I got the same error message that the file was invalid. So I did a backup again, but this time to the internal hard drive. Voila! Backup and Recover were successful. So there's something about the process or the external hard drive (or both?) that prevents the creation of a valid .tar.gz backup file on my hard drive. It was recently formatted, so I'm at a loss to explain. More to come. (I hope the list will indulge me because I'm a noob on most of the Linux command structure.) IJ _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
