Evolution: my sent folder just disappeared.

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 22:34 +0000, g wrote:
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> linuxguy wrote:
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> > I will do this when I get my Sent folder back.   Right now it isn't
> > present in EV to do this.
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> if you are adventurous, you can try what i did a few years back with ev.
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> with a file browser, locate your 'sent' folder, open with a text editor.
> then manually save to a new file, 'sent00'.
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> open 'sent00', page down about half way into it, back up to start of a
> message. then delete messages to end, save as a new file name, 'sent01'.
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> reopen 'sent00', page down to message you started of message you started
> you delete from, delete back to start of file, save as 'sent02'.
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> rename original 'sent' file to 'sent.org', open a terminal, or command shell,
> touch 'sent' to create a new 'sent'.
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> look at associated files of 'sent', create them for 'sent01' and 'sent02'.
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> reopen ev and you should now have an empty 'sent' plus a new 'sent01' and
> 'sent02'.
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> there may be an easier way, but this did work for me.
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I found that emacs gagged on 2Gb files and had to use vi for files of
this size but it was painful.

You can use the 'split' command (man split for details).

you could conceivably split the file into 8 pieces and thus only lose 8
e-mails.

Craig