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Am Mittwoch 24 August 2011, 22:11:48 schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> I am about to get on a damn plane to Germany, find me the entire |
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> collection of KDEPIM devs and shoot every last one of those fuckers |
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> dead. dead. dead. dead. |
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> Then blow up the repo so this POS will never again see the light of |
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> day. |
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> I'm trying to migrate away from kdepim. Nothing else out there imports |
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> KDE folders so I use my usual trick of running a local imap server, |
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> dragging mail trees into it and when the new mail client is started, |
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> everything is right there. |
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> Akonadi/kmail2 silently destroys the mail when you attempt this. |
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> I did a few tests, copied small folders, contents of other folders, |
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> etc and satisfied myself it all worked nicely. Then dragged and |
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> dropped nice big chunks of mail tree into the IMAP folders. The mails |
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> appear in the kde view, but THEY ARE NOT ON DISK ANYMORE. What I am |
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> seeing is the akonadi cache, and sooner or later that will expire. |
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and you looked at the contents of .local/share/akonadi especially |
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local/share/akonadi/file_db_data? |
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> There was no warning, no dialog, no notification. Just a pile of mail |
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> disappeared. Akonadi/nepomuk/kmail/virtuoso/soprano/strigi didn't do |
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> it's usual stunt of observing that my mouse pointer had moved and |
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> consume 200% of cpu at load 11 for 30 minutes while it reindexed |
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> everything. It appears to have just chucked 2GB of pim data away. |
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just restart akonadi (akonaditray helps a lot). |
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> Need I mention that NOT chucking pim data away is it's primary design |
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> goal (or should be). |
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> Now finally after 3 years, I understand what all the other ex-KDE |
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> users are on about - this is a stinking pile of bloatcrap and a |
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> solution to a problem that actually does not exist. |
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you were not forced to go kmail2, were you? |
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You should have asked me first - yes, it is a crapfest. I haven't lost mails |
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(except thanks to crashes at a bad moment). Sometimes mails are gone - until |
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akonadi is stopped and restarted. |
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It is a nightmare. Yeah. |
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