I'm running Xubuntu in a VM. I'd installed Xubuntu Lucid from an ISO a
few days ago; today I upgraded to Maverick, and I got this error on one
of 5 IMAP accounts which I managed in Evolution. Evolution was running
perfectly (better than it ever has, in fact) prior to the upgrade. After
the upgrade, however, it is slow, crashes randomly, and gives me various
alerts about folder refreshes, listings, and saves -- all of which end
up being the same error message: database disk image is malformed.

To work around this problem, I did the following:
 * put evolution into off-line mode
 * quit evolution
 * removed the folders.db file in the offending IMAP directory in 
~/.evolution/mail/imap
 * started evolution
 * put evolution back into on-line mode
 * clicked on the folders of the offending IMAP account that hadn't been 
displaying the messages

At that point, I was able to see all the messages in my various folders
and no longer got the alerts and error messages about malformed disk
images.

I agree with other users that have made similar comments: if the root
cause for this cannot be discovered, it would be very good for Evolution
to provide a nice quick UI-accessible means of purging and rebuilding
corrupt database files.

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database disk image is malformed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381164
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