[kdepim-users] Please help: kmail2/akonadi lost(?) emails

[O. Sinclair]

On 27/03/12 12:08, Andreas Mair wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is there nobody out there who has any ideas?
>
> Best regards,
> Andreas
>
> 2012/3/23 Andreas Mair<amair.sob at googlemail.com>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> First I'd like to tell you how my KMail2/akonadi has been set up:
>> I've been using KDE/KMail since the year 2000 and had been always very
>> pleased with it. But then I switched to KDE4 and finally KDEPIM 4.7.4
>> as it went stable in Gentoo.
>>
>> First migrating KMail1 to KMail2 failed and I had to do it manually,
>> i.e. import every single mail folder. Finally I had my old emails in
>> KMail2. Then I tried to recreate my mail accounts, POP3 and IMAP. POP3
>> is fine, IMAP a nightmare. I had to stop using IMAP as every email
>> that was moved by a filter reappeared in the inbox. This happened also
>> for almost every email I manually deleted or moved. I moved avway from
>> IMAP and use POP3 for it now.
>> Nevertheless KMail2 was usable since then (but it never got as
>> responsive as KMail1 had been). And I also thought that I don't have
>> problems.
>>
>> Then Gentoo made akonadi 1.7.2 stable (had been 1.6.1) which I
>> installed and then my problems started. KMail2 was almost unusable.
>> Switching to another local folder took me tenth of minutes. Reading
>> emails was not possible as kmail2 only told me that it's "loading
>> content" (or a similar text).
>> I've searched the Internet (and I read forum.kde.org for
>> kmail2/akonadi bugs) but I couldn't find hints. They tell you to
>> remove the "Local folder" akonadi source and add it again. I also
>> guessed it might be a good idea to rebuild the components that use
>> akonadi and so I rebuilt kdepim-runtime, kdepimlibs and
>> kdepim-common-libs.
>>
>> The result is that I have at least *three* local mail folders that are
>> *empty* which used to have hundreds of emails. Where are they?
>> I've read much about akonadi and they say that akonadi doesn't move
>> mails to its database/cache/whatever. Mails stay in the local folders.
>> But why are they gone? I've looked in the filesystem, but I can't find
>> them anywhere in ~/.local/share/{local-mail,.local-mail.directory} but
>> I can see them in ~/.local/share/akonadi/file_db_data
>>
>> I now wonder how can I fix that?
>> Is it possible to move files from the akonadi folder to the local-mail
>> folder and how do I have to rename them?
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your assistance in advance!
>> Please let me know if you need more info.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andreas
>> --
>> http://andreas.vdr-developer.org --- VDRAdmin-AM&  EnigmaNG&  VDRSymbols
>> VDR user #303
>
>
>
try checking if you have a folder 
/home/you/.local/share/.local-mail.directory/ where you might find your 
missing mail. It is hidden by default
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