Re: [LUG] Problems with Evolution

[Peter James <pfjames@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 28 July 2004 17:31, mike wrote:
> On 28/07/04 17:08:33, Peter James wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 July 2004 10:17, mike wrote:
> > As requested, output of ls- ld
> >
> > > ls -ld //home/peter/evolution/local/inbox/inbox
> >
> > peter@xxxxx:~/evolution/local/Inbox> ls -ld
> > drwxr-xr-x    3 peter    users         288 2004-07-28 17:02 .
> > peter@xxxxx:~/evolution/local/Inbox>
> >
> > Output of ls -l
> >
> > > ls -l //home/peter/evolution/local/inbox/inbox
> >
> > peter@xxxxx:~/evolution/local/Inbox> ls -l
> > total 657
> > -r--r--r--    1 peter    users         103 2004-07-04 17:11
> > folder-metadata.xml
> > -rw-------    1 peter    users          95 2004-07-28 17:02
> > local-metadata.xml
> > -r--r--r--    1 peter    users      622806 2004-07-23 16:52 mbox
> > -r--r--r--    1 peter    users        1661 2004-07-23 16:52
> > mbox.ev-summary
> > -r--r--r--    1 peter    users       20480 2004-07-23 14:35
> > mbox.ibex.index
> > -r--r--r--    1 peter    users        9116 2004-07-23 14:35
> > mbox.ibex.index.data
> > drwxr-xr-x   23 peter    users         608 2004-07-28 07:23
> > subfolders
>
> Several interesting things...
> You are in a directory Inbox and its looking for inbox, does that help?
> (capital I)
Not really.  I am at a total loss here, and if none of the "gurus" on this 
group can't solve it, I'm sure I can't.
> Also I would have thought the ls -ld would have shown a directory not .
> (current directory)
>
> My query about the // was, that this is not normal, it shouldn't matter
> but I have seen coding that breaks with this sort thing.
Someone on this group did suggest copying the backup files to the HD in a temp 
folder and dealing with the permissions and then copying to Evolution.  Is 
this a valid suggestion?

Peter


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