Doesn't matter !! INCREDIBLE !!!!! YOU ARE RIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAHOOOOOOOOO ! I just created a /tmp folder in each unreadable directory, and it worked ! I learnt something today about Linux, the ll command and KMail, of course !Ah, but there is still a puzzle for you to investigate: why didn't Ark/zip recreate the (presumably) empty directories? Do they even appear in the zip archive? Or did it simply not create them on extraction? Maybe there is some setting to exclude directories named "tmp"?
Once you know the answer to that mystery, you will also know the 'right' way to backup and restore your mail directories.
BTW, I actually *don't* know the answer to this one. Almost all archiving programs (zip, tar, cpio, etc) have command line options to exclude files that match particular patterns. But Ark doesn't seem to make any of those exclusion options available, so the default mode of operation should be to backup/extract everything. Thus I am rather curious to know if the tmp directories are listed in the zip archive or not.
Maybe you've uncovered a bug in Ark, as well as a wish-list item for KMail (to recreate tmp directories if they don't exist, since excluding things named tmp is fairly common practice in backup).
-Richard
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