Le Mardi 13 Avril 2004 22:38, Richard Fish a écrit : > creafab@xxxxxxx wrote: > >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. Visibly 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). I'll put that on the lists when I have a little time to ! -- Fabien3D CREAFab, la création numérique autrement... http://creafab.free.fr ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.