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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: [kde] Problem with KMail
From:       Fabien3D <creafab () free ! fr>
Date:       2004-04-15 20:32:40
Message-ID: 200404152232.40300.creafab () free ! fr
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Le Mardi 13 Avril 2004 22:38, Richard Fish a écrit :
> creafab@free.fr wrote:
> >Doesn't matter !!
> >INCREDIBLE !!!!! YOU ARE RIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >WAHOOOOOOOOO !
> >I just created a /tmp folder in each unreadable directory, and it worked !
> >I learnt something today about Linux, the ll command and KMail, of course
> > !
>
> Ah, but there is still a puzzle for you to investigate: why didn't
> Ark/zip recreate the (presumably) empty directories?  Do they even
> appear in the zip archive?  Or did it simply not create them on
> extraction? Maybe there is some setting to exclude directories named "tmp"?
>
> Once you know the answer to that mystery, you will also know the 'right'
> way to backup and restore your mail directories.
>
> BTW, I actually *don't* know the answer to this one.  Almost all
> archiving programs (zip, tar, cpio, etc) have command line options to
> exclude files that match particular patterns.  But Ark doesn't seem to
> make any of those exclusion options available, so the default mode of
> operation should be to backup/extract everything.  Thus I am rather
> curious to know if the tmp directories are listed in the zip archive or
> not.
Visibly not !

> Maybe you've uncovered a bug in Ark, as well as a wish-list item for
> KMail (to recreate tmp directories if they don't exist, since excluding
> things named tmp is fairly common practice in backup).
I'll put that on the lists when I have a little time to !
-- 
Fabien3D

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http://creafab.free.fr

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