Corrupted evolution databases

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue Oct 4 20:39:13 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 15:34 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 15:50 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > I had a crash that caused some filesystem errors, and after restarting,
> > evolution reports that it can't view some of my mail and RSS feed
> > folders because "database disk image is malformed".
> > 
> > Is this something that can be recovered?  If so, how?
> > 
> > TIA.
> > -- 
> > Matthew Saltzman
> > Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
> > mjs AT clemson DOT edu
> > 
> 
> Usually if you run: evolution --force-shutdown
> Then go to:
> .local/share/evolution/mail/local_mbox
> and : rm Inbox.ibex.index
> and restart evolution , things will straighten out.
Correction.
That is for F15 . In earlier versions of Fedora it was in local not
local_mbox.


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