hggdh, Here's a stacktrace on my system when the restore hangs at the Migrating step: Thread 2 (Thread 0xb5020b90 (LWP 11889)): #0 0xb80b2430 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb6a7033b in read () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb6a09dae in _IO_file_underflow () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #3 0xb6a0d23a in __underflow () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #4 0xb6a096c8 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #5 0xb6a0bb58 in _IO_sgetn () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #6 0xb69ff000 in fread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #7 0xb7baaba4 in camel_file_util_decode_fixed_int32 (in=0x85d5058, dest=0x1c8b36e0) at /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:287 #8 0xb7e3ac0c in message_info_load (s=0x8313678, in=0x85d5058) at camel-folder-summary.c:3157 #9 0xb5830fe3 in message_info_load (s=0x8313678, in=0x85d5058) at camel-mbox-summary.c:477 #10 0xb7e38d41 in camel_folder_summary_migrate_infos (s=0x8313678) at camel-folder-summary.c:1194 #11 0xb5f3cb78 in migrate_folders (store=0x82702c0, is_local=1, fi=0x83139b8, acc=0xb5f83991 "On This Computer", ex=0xbf9b2c5c, done=0xbf9b2c6c, nth_folder=0xb5020318, total_folders=9) at em-migrate.c:2875 #12 0xb5f3ccc5 in migrate_folders_to_db_thread (migrate_dbs=0xbf9b2c58) at em-migrate.c:2929 #13 0xb6b6202f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #14 0xb7a1650f in start_thread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #15 0xb6a807ee in clone () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 Thread 1 (Thread 0xb6452940 (LWP 11875)): #0 0xb80b2430 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb6a75f77 in poll () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb6b3ac32 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #3 0xb6b3af61 in g_main_context_iteration () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #4 0xb5f3c914 in migrate_to_db () at em-migrate.c:2975 #5 0xb5f3ea9b in em_migrate ( evolution_dir=0x83260a8 "/home/david/.evolution", major=2, minor=22, revision=0, ex=0xbf9b2f24) at em-migrate.c:3122 #6 0xb5f4e9ef in impl_upgradeFromVersion (servant=0x82aed04, major=2, minor=22, revision=0, ev=0xbf9b3128) at mail-component.c:1075 #7 0xb808c576 in _ORBIT_skel_small_GNOME_Evolution_Component_upgradeFromVersion (_o_servant=0x82aed04, _o_retval=0x0, _o_args=0xbf9b2fd8, _o_ctx=0x0, _o_ev=0xbf9b3128, _impl_upgradeFromVersion=0xb5f4e990 ) at Evolution-common.c:56 #8 0xb75d6740 in ORBit_c_stub_invoke () from /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0 #9 0xb808e045 in GNOME_Evolution_Component_upgradeFromVersion ( _obj=0x837f140, major=2, minor=22, revision=0, ev=0xbf9b3128) at Evolution-stubs.c:88 #10 0x080539ce in e_shell_attempt_upgrade (shell=0x828d5b0) at e-shell.c:620 #11 0x08053fb8 in e_shell_construct (shell=0x828d5b0, iid=0x805e1fc "OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Shell:2.24", startup_line_mode=E_SHELL_STARTUP_LINE_MODE_CONFIG) at e-shell.c:697 #12 0x08054127 in e_shell_new ( startup_line_mode=E_SHELL_STARTUP_LINE_MODE_CONFIG, construct_result_return=0xbf9b3218) at e-shell.c:745 #13 0x0805d070 in idle_cb (uris=0x0) at main.c:332 #14 0xb6b357c1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #15 0xb6b376f8 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #16 0xb6b3ada3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #17 0xb6b3b2c2 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #18 0xb7630cf3 in bonobo_main () from /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0 #19 0x0805cc16 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbf9b3484) at main.c:689 #0 0xb80b2430 in __kernel_vsyscall () Hope this helps. Dave