On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 08:36, Martin C. Messer wrote:
> >From a colleague, any ideas?
> 
> "My inbox under Evolution seems to have corrupted itself such that I can
> see email received from April-May and over the last two days, but none
> of the prior months.  I recently upgraded from RH 7.2 to 8.0, which
> seemed to work fine for a few days, but yesterday Evolution complained
> about header/summary data for some folders not matching the contents of
> the folders, then today it crashed, and when I restarted it had lost
> chunks of mail.  I had shut down the system in between these
> occurrences, and Evolution had started up fine and seen all of the mail
> after the header/summary data error message, so I'm not sure if the
> problems are related.
> 
> Does anyone know how to get Evolution to rebuild the summary data for
> the folder without losing the email?"

You can just manually remove the *.ibex* and *.ev-summary files in the
folder directory, eg. ~/evolution/local/Inbox.  That will cause
Evolution to rebuild the indexes from scratch and hopefully fix the
problem.

-- 
Ettore Perazzoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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