On Thursday, 2011-05-05, John Woodhouse wrote: > Think I have sorted this out now. My concern was that I couldn't see my > > emails - just one of them. I've imported them and then re arranged, > intending to keep some and discard the rest. Confused by the fact that > dolphin doesn't retain it's view setting so wasn't showing hidden files or > more importantly hidden directories. > Now fixed as I have selected common view and added the show hidden files > button. > > For some reason sub folders of inbox are in a hidden directory as are some > of the > KMail-Import folders. On open suse 10.3 "kde 3.can't remember" this seems > to have > caused copying problems so lots of my mail wasn't there to be imported when > I upgraded. I solved that by re installing my old installation and taring > the entire mail > directory. ;-) Didn't reduce the size by much if any but did catch all of > the contents. I always use tar, as it processes all files and stores access rights flags correctly, etc. > Must ask the devs why some mail directories are hidden and others aren't? > Surely the > sensible option would be to hide the ~kde directory and none of the ones > below or at > least be consistent and hide all rather than just a few of them. That's how maildir works. Every folder has a directory named like the folder. If a folder contains subfolders, there is a special sub directory which then holds the sub folders again by their name. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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