Version: 1.2 (using KDE 3.5.1 Level "a" , SUSE 10.1) Compiler: Target: i586-suse-linux OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.16.13-4-default I copied my .kde folder to another computer prior to doing a new install of OpenSuSE 10.1 (overwriting OpenSuSE 10.0). When I transferred the .kde... kmail .... mail folder back to the original computer I have all my emails but there is no content for any of them. They all have 'no subject' no text, no date or any other details. How can I get them back? How do I avoid this problem in the future? It would be really good to have a simple back-up arrangement inbuilt to kmail - like The Bat does in Windows.
The backup mechanism is going to be provided by a different application. Try removing/moving all the *.index files.
This doesn't work. Why are these folders so difficult? I can copy folders for Thunderbird very easily, which means that I can reliably back-up even if it isn't easy. Thanks for your response. Richard On Sunday 04 June 2006 09:51, Thiago Macieira wrote: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail]
It isn't. I copied my ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail from one computer to another, and then from that another to a third one two months later. All is working fine. Your case probably indicates that the folders had a corruption in the first place.
They weren't corrupted when I backed them up. Is a backup solution to be available shortly? Richard Moore National Development Consultant Health and Social Care Advisory Service 11-13 Cavendish Square LONDON W1G 0AN Office: 020 7307-2898 Mobile: 07973 234496 Home Office: 0141 416 0496 On Thu Jun 8 21:36 , Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org> sent: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail] later. All is working fine. > >Your case probably indicates that the folders had a corruption in the first place.
Sorry to keep pestering you Thiago. At the weekend I tried to bring the copied email folder up on a different computer. I realised two things which may or may not be significant. First, the email folders were KMail 3.5.2, but when I upgraded my SuSE to 10.1 the installed Kmail would be 3.5.1 - I guess this wouldn't make a difference. Second, when I tried to open Kmail on the new computer I got the message 'Kontact already seems to be running' although it wasn't. I had thismessage when I upgraded and encountered the problem I wrote about. I haven't opened Kontact on the second machine - is there a file which is telling KDE that Kontact is open even though it isn't? If so, can I amend this? Thank you for your help. Richard On Thursday 08 June 2006 22:36, Thiago Macieira wrote: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail]
> is there a file which is telling KDE that Kontact is open even though it > isn't? You probably copied your .kde while it was running, so you copied the lock file too. It's ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/lock
Richard, Has this problem been fixed/resolved? If so, can you mark this bug as WORKSFORME
Already reported, see bug 122028 and bug 122028. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122028 ***