On Thursday 17 November 2011 13:35:21 Anne Wilson wrote:
On 11/17/2011 05:25 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> have just preupgraded my workplace server (the one I was having video
>>
>> > issues with), and when it finally came up, I instantly got the
>> > message about upgrading KMail - I allowed it, and the process took
>> > all of about 5 seconds; when I opened KMail however, hardly any of
>> > my mail is there - the folder structure was successfully migrated,
>> > but the messages inside the folders are only the unread - over 20000
>> > archived messages going back many years, are not there - I do have a
>> > backup, but, I'm not sure how I'm going to retrieve all stuff
from
>> > the backup...
>
> It should have taken a*lot* longer than that. Mine too several hours -
> I left it running overnight. What you should do does depend on whether
> you are using IMAP or POP3, though.
Anne: When it's doing the migration, I get a window that shows various
elements being ticked off, and then, it announces it's finished and
there are no further signs of activity. When your 'several hours' of
migration occurred, were you getting some sort of feedback from that
window that it was still processing stuff?
To be honest, I can't remember the details. I know there were a couple of
times when it paused due to "conflicts" where I had to choose between two
offered emails. Since they always seemed to be identical, I'm not sure why
that happened. Apart from that, I think there was feedback, yes. I'm not
sure how many messages I have in my folders, but since they contain some
archived stuff gathered over 10 years, and without attachments stripped, it
would be a goodly amount. IIRC my MailDir/ on the server is about 53GB.
Did your feedback look enough to assure you that it was processing _all_ your
folders?
Anne