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Reviving completely messed up evolution

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Yesterday evolution messed up completely and I got my Inbox broken: all mails were repeated multiple times, I was unable to remove any mail, evolution was listing around 10 supposed unread messages, was reacting really slow to any action, lots of warnings in terminal output...

After googling a lot, removing indexes to regenerate them and other actions... I found the way to fix it:

$ locate folders.db

-> and remove all of them to get them regenerated, after that, all is working ok again bigsmile

Finally, I run:

for i in `find . -name folders.db`
do
echo "Rebuilding Table $i"
sqlite3 $i "vacuum;"
done

to get evolution starting fast again (vacuum still seems to be required from time to time to improve startup performance... but it's a different topic, not sure if upstream is aware of this wink)

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Comments

Unregistered user Saturday, October 1, 2011 6:40:19 AM

Roger writes: Hi Pacho! I used to depend on Evolution for contacts and email, but it let me down one too many times. The final draw was with problems getting it's databases easily exported for backup reasons. The main reason Evolution has many problems is because of all it's depends. As such, I converted all contacts to ABook (text files). All notes to a folder named journal/ with sub folders for personal & business. I then moved all my email to Mutt. Everything is basically text and managed by command line tools. (Using far less depends then Evolution now!) About the only problem I do have is readily finding something, for which I depend on Mairix (when I can remember how to use it) and grep.

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