Restoring a KMail folder from a generic backup

[O.Sinclair]

On Wednesday 16 July 2014 3:10:48 PM David Goodenough wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 July 2014 05:43:10 O.Sinclair wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 July 2014 9:27:52 AM John M Cavallo wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 01:28:10 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 01:04:57PM -0400, John M Cavallo wrote:
> > > > > I am using KMail 4.10.5 on a Linux system and have a regular backup
> > > > > of
> > > > > my
> > > > > entire home directory. I was manually cleaning up my KMail folders
> > > > > using
> > > > > 'Archive Folder...' with the 'Delete folder and subfolders after
> > > 
> > > completion'
> > > 
> > > > > when I accidentally overwrote an archive of another folder. Is there
> > > > > a
> > > > > way
> > > 
> > > of
> > > 
> > > > > restoring the lost mail folder from the backup?
> > > > 
> > > > Well, go to the backup folder and live folder¹ with $file_manager and
> > > > copy
> > > > it back. AFAIK, KMail uses a Maildir “dialect”, so you can even copy
> > > > single mails. If you don’t trust that or fear you would overwrite even
> > > > more in the process, then create a new subfolder in KMail, exit KMail,
> > > > and copy your backup in there. You can then start KMail again and sort
> > > > out the emails from there.
> > > > 
> > > > ¹ In the past, emails were stored in ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/Mail.
> > > > But
> > > > with KMail 2, at some point the switch was made to
> > > > ~/.local/share/local-mail for your local folders.
> > > 
> > > Thanks Frank, unfortunately things have changed recently. I checked both
> > > ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail and ~/.local/share/local-mail, and came up
> > > empty.
> > > I
> > > have previously restored the plain text files when I made this type of
> > > blunder before. Some recent changes in kmail have moved the mail storage
> > > to
> > > someplace else. I fear that it might be in a database (akonadi?) along
> > > with
> > > all of the rest KDE configuration, which would make a targeted
> > > restoration
> > > very difficult.
> > 
> > make sure you have hidden files visible - the subdirectories are now
> > hidden
> > mine are in /home/myuser/.local/share/.local-mail-
> > directory/.whatevermailfolder (notice the dot in the beginning) and some
> > of
> > them are hidden folders, some not
> 
> I have never quite understood why some files and directories inside .local
> are hidden.  You only go into .local when you need to find some mail
> manually, and having them hidden just seems to be done to make life
> difficult for the user!
I completely agree - I see no point whatsoever in hiding my own mail away from 
me. Should someone invade my computer I guess they are clever enough to find 
them if they so wish in any case

/Sinclair
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