Evolution Disappeared. Ideas?
 

Hi All,

Evolution was working fine one day. After logging out and back in another day, Evolution looks to have simply disappeared.

It gives me the start up option - as though Evolution had never been set up or configured.

Is there any way I can trouble shoot this? I have an old backup I can use, but I'd prefer not to lose all the emails between then and now.

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10.

TIA...

Posting here the messages you get by starting Evolution from the terminal may help other people here to help you.

The emails are stored on your hardisk: http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#...ore_my_data.3F

Hi Anisha, When I type evolution in the terminal, it opens the Welcome screen and tries to set up a new account. When I cancel out, I get the following response in the terminal, "EI: MAIL PREFS"

I will check out the link you shared and see if I can recover the data.

Thanks.

Edit - I have files in my .evolution folder, not sure what to do with them.

After the Evolution gets opened, do you see any messages on the terminal from which you opened it?

Anyway, if I were you, I would have uninstalled Evolution through my package manager and then installed it again, in order to save time.

If I do that, will it delete my email and address book data?

TIA...

I am not sure, so don't do anything till someone else shed's some light on this. Actually my Evolution is broken too, and I am going to reinstall, I'll post here whatever I observe.

Just to be safe, I think you can copy the ~/.evolution folder to a safe location and then reinstall Evolution, I am going to do that, let me see what happens :)

and meanwhile read this: http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#...e_directory.3F

Hi Anisha, I found the problem. .evolution can't be copied due to the following error:

"evolution Error opening file: Input/output error"

I'm googling to see if this is recoverable.

The files in the /home directory are not over-written, that is shown by the fact that we can do a clean install from one version to another and not have to format the /home partition (even though you should keep a backup of all important data).

HI K3, that makes sense. I think the problem is that Evolution can't open the .evolution file and so defaults to thinking there is no Evolution data and wants to start a brand new Evolution set up. I don't think updating Evolution will help if the file is actually corrupted somehow. I might try it just to 100% exclude it as a problem.

This evolution is bent on creating a lot of installation problems for me too, see this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ration-875802/, Iam thinking of shifting to Kmail now and importing all the Evolution mails there.

I don't use Evolution anymore but I do still have all of my old Evolution files and they have never been over-written yet. Having said that, and yes I know I've already said it, you should always have a safe backup of your important files.

K3, I would have to agree. I'll make it a priority.

I've had nothing but grief with evolution in the last year or so.
On one machine I did a Ubuntu complete uninstall, erased ~/.evolution and tracked down all packages I could find and purged them. Then re-installed. Tried copying folders over, but didn't really think that would work, it didn't.
Tried importing - failed because not an export file.
Forgot to mention; evolution couldn't find its own folders, but would go get mail, and put it in the (apparently invisible) inbox. At that point I ditched it.

I now use claws everywhere - it imported the mail folders (from evolution) that evolution couldn't even see. You need to import them one at a time, but easy to do.