[Evolution] Bug#615822: Evolution wipe $HOME/.evolution/mail on upgrade

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Cedric,


On Mo, 2011-02-28 at 10:11 +0100, Cedric Blancher wrote:
> Package: evolution
> Version: 2.32.2-1
> Severity: critical
> Justification: causes serious data loss
> 
> 
> After upgrading Evolution and associated packages to 2.32.2, I saw that
> some of my local email accounts were now empty. It appears that the entire
> $HOME/.evolution/mail was wiped without any notice or warning during the
> upgrade. Therefore, all local emails stored there are actually *lost*.
> 
> Apparently, I am not the only one affected:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1378906
> 
> Checking last modification dates on file system, I can confirm that it is
> due to upgrading Evolution. Now, is it due to Evolution upstream bug or
> packaging, I don't know. But that's a serious issue as you are actually
> losing email without any mean of recovering it as far as I can see...
> Quite a lot as far as I am concerned :(

I saw the message `Migrating cached data` in the terminal output and it
seems to have to do with Evolution now complying with the XDG Base
Directory Specification since 2.31.6 [1].

Please look under `$XDG_DATA_HOME/evolution` or `
$HOME/.local/share/evolution` for your messages.

[…]


Thanks,

Paul


PS: I am having troubles with the calendar modules, see bug 615824 [2].
It would be great if you could test that too and report back. (You can
import my messages to your MUA with `bts show --mbox 615824`, where the
program `bts` is packaged in the package `devscripts`.)


[1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/tree/NEWS?h=gnome-2-32#n312
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=615824
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