Re: Evolution Mistake

[Carlos Moffat <carlos.lst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:21 +0900, Bernhard Egger wrote:
> >>> So my problem is I have a healthy local copy of my email I'd like to
> >>> restore, but I can't read it with evolution because they were saved with
> >>> the wrong 'sep' option. And obviously the server stuff is not good
> >>> anymore.
> >> Synchronization works in both ways, so you can simply sync your (complete) 
> >> local
> >> copy with the server again. Before doing so, you have to change the 'sep' 
> >> option
> >> back to the original dot ('.') and then run it again.
> >>
> >> Make a backup of your local mail first!
> >>
> > 
> > Thanks for you answer. Regrettably, that did not work. I guess
> > offlineimap things the version from the server is the right one and is
> > just deleting the mail in my local folder (I still have another copy, of
> > course).
> > 
> > Any other ideas?
> > 
> 
> FYI, I'm by no means an expert in offlineimap. In fact I just began using it a
> couple of days ago :-)
> 

Hi,

> Nevertheless, from the docs/man page I guess what should work is the 
> following:
> 
> 1. delete all your mail on the server (all mails/folders in/below INBOX)
> 2. delete the ~/.offlineimap directory
> 3. change the separator character to what it was when you created the local 
> copy
> 4. sync, i.e., run offlineimap
> 
> I guess right now you have stale information in your ~/.offlineimap directory.
> By deleting that directory, it will start clean and should IMHO copy all your
> mails back to the server.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Barnoid

This didn't work. All the local emails got deleted.

I guess I'll need to recover things some other way.

Carlos