Bug 630356

Summary:	Restoring backup in evolution does not restore older mail
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Flóki Pálsson <flokip>
Component:	evolution	Assignee:	Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	14	CC:	lucilanga, mbarnes, mcrha
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Description Flóki Pálsson 2010-09-04 23:27:29 UTC

Description of problem:
Restoring backup in evolution does not restore older mail.  But mail accountes are restored. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evolution-2.31.90-1.fc14.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always 

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  in Evolution File -> Restore Evolution steings
2.  select evolutuon backup file
3.
  
Actual results:
No mail is restored.

Expected results:
To se mail which is in restore file.

Additional info:
mail accountes are restored.

Comment 1 Milan Crha 2010-09-06 06:39:32 UTC

Thanks for a bug report. This seems to be related to a transition to XDG directory layout compliance. New messages and such are stored in ~/.local/share/evolution, but the restore process created them in ~/.evolution. There might be done an initial migration from ~/.evolution to ~/.local/..., but it's done on start only, and it doesn't rewrite already created folders, so it doesn't move your older mails where they should be.

I filled this upstream as [1], because it's not fedora specific. Please see [1] for any further updates.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628852