Comment 8 for bug 397980

Martin.

If you re-create the folder (or move it back where it was) you should get
your old mails back. What I did was copy the text file and made a backup
when your scenario happened.

Hope you get your files back.

On 5 March 2010 18:06, MartinE <email address hidden> wrote:

> I can confirm this bug in Evolution 2.26.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope.
> The following procedure consistently triggers the bug:
>
> (1) Create a subfolder in "Inbox"
> (2) Copy several messages into the new folder
> (3) Rename the folder
> (4) Delete a single email from the renamed folder
>
> Expected Result:
> One email has been deleted from the folder.
>
> Observed Result:
> All except one email have been deleted from the folder.
> The remaining email is usually the newest one. Note that
> the emails are simply gone, they don't show up in "Trash"
> either.
>
> Importance:
> CRITICAL.
>
> <rant>
> I lost 7.5 years of university-related emails yesterday, due to
> this bug. Gone. Everything. Because I decided to rename a
> folder. I've never been so happy that I keep regular backups.
>
> There's no way that this bug is of medium importance. This
> stuff is simply not supposed to happen.
> </rant>
>
> --
> evolution deletes all e-mails in a folder after renaming
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397980
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