evolution problem :messages that can't be expunged in F14

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jul 20 20:54:14 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 08:29 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 07:56 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > This problem is on my F14 machine.
> > In Evolution there are two messages appearing in the Inbox list which
> > when one trys to view them you get the following messages such as: 
> > 
> > Cannot get message 31305 from
> > folder /home/akonstam/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/Inbox The folder
> > appears to be irrecoverably corrupted.
> > 
> > The error is correct. The message bodies are not in the Inbox file. I
> > have tried the usual fixing method of executing:
> >  evolution --force-shutdown
> > 
> > Then removing the
> > file:  /home/akonstam/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/Inbox.ibex.index
> > 
> > When I start evolution again the Inbox.ibex.index file is recreated but
> > the defective messages still appear and can not be expunged.
> > 
> > What can I do to fix the problem?
> 
> Try scrubbing the database:
> 
> evolution --force-shutdown
> cd ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/                                                                                                     
> for i in `find . -name folders.db`                                                                                                    
>         do                                                                                                                            
>         echo "Rebuilding Table $i"                                                                                                    
>         sqlite3 $i "vacuum;"                                                                                                          
> done
> 
> poc                                                                                                                      
> 

I have a record of you suggesting this before. 

I any case the problem fixed itself the next time I ran evolution.
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