From kdepim-users  Thu Jan 15 20:44:17 2009
From: Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:44:17 +0000
To: kdepim-users
Subject: Re: [kdepim-users]
Message-Id: <200901152144.17791 () thufir ! ingo-kloecker ! de>
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On Thursday 15 January 2009, Claus Hausberger wrote:
> Hello
>
> > On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Claus Hausberger wrote:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I upgrade to the latest OpenSuse 11.1 with KDE 4.1. Before I used
> > > OpenSuse 8.2 with Kmail from KDE 3.
> > >
> > > I made a backup of the old $HOME/Mail folder where all my Emails
> > > are.
> >
> > How did you create the backup? Onto which medium did you copy
> > $HOME/Mail?
>
> I copied everything to a mounted windows partition (FAT 32) as root.
> Before I copied it back to the kmail directory, I changed the user
> and group back to the original user.

I feared that you could have done this. Unfortunately, it is very likely=20
that the backup does not contain the messages you are missing, i.e.=20
they are lost. I'm terribly sorry. :-(

The problem with FAT32 is that it does not like filenames containing=20
colons. The filenames of the files your mail was stored in most likely=20
have contained colons (because KMail uses the Maildir format for=20
storing mail). Those files are stored in folders called "cur" and "new"=20
below the filesystem folders corresponding to your mail folders.=20
Copying those files to the FAT32 partition will have failed.

Two suggestions for preventing similar catastrophes in the future:
=2D Create a partition for the system and another partition for the /home=20
folder. This way you can easily reinstall the system without having to=20
backup /home. Of course, you should still backup /home anyway before=20
you do the upgrade/reinstallation just in case something goes wrong.
=2D Whenever you backup data, verify that the backup actually worked=20
correctly. An easy check is comparing the number of files and their=20
cumulative size. Konqueror shows those numbers in the folders'=20
Properties dialog.

I know that those tips come too late. I'm sorry. :-(


Regards,
Ingo

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