On Tuesday, 2014-07-15, 09:27:52, 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. The database is not used for storing mails. If the folder is of a local storage backend, e.g. maildir, then the folder is a directory and the mails are files. Check the account's settings for the base path. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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