Re: Empty directories removed

Scrive Werner Joss <[email protected]>:

> Am Friday 10 April 2009 12:23:10 schrieb Paolo Pozzan:
> > I just removed all empty directories within my home dir. This was my
> > mistake...
>
> sure :)
> (happened to me too, once in a while, but fortunately I was already using an
> imap server at that time, so just recreate the new/tmp folders as written
> below, resolved the issue...)
>
> > However that command delete also all empty dirs into kmail
> > subdirs. When I tried to open kmail it told me some folders (new and tmp)
> > were missing. I manually re-create them, but when i get to start kmail all
> > the inbox subfolders were disapperared, along with the messages inside
> > them.
> > Is there any way to restore at least the messages?
>
> try the following: first copy the whole folder/subfolder tree from your
> current setup to another, safe place (note: NOT a fat-formatted usb stick or
> thelike!).
> then use kmail's import wizzard (file-import...) to import from that copy.
> no guarantee for this to work, though.
>

Thanks. I will try this. Could these steps also be used for moving to KDE4 (and
thus the last kmail version)?
I use sidux and just a few days ago kde4 made its appearance into sid, so it's
just a matter of days/week before I upgrade.

Paolo