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[N900][solved] modest folders

I was forced to pull the battery out by a runaway app and ended up with a corrupt email database. Much better than the last time it happened though, when I ended up with a corrupt optfs and had to restore from backup. This time I fixed it by deleting and recreating the account and everything works fine.

However, here is my question. I had five accounts, lets call them Account1, Account2 etc up to Account5. Strewn all over my fs, I found folders with corresponding names, namely Account1ID through Account5ID. Deleting Account5 deleted the folders Account5ID except in one place, /var/lib/gconf/apps/modest/accounts. Recreating the account left the old folder and created a new one, Account5ID1.

Never mind, I thought, I'll just delete the account again, this time including the folders, and recreate it again. I ended up with Account5ID2. So I am guessing there is a config file somewhere but I cannot find it. Can anyone help?

It does not bother me as such as it works fine as it is but I am a fussy fellow and like things neat and tidy :)

Re: [N900] modest folders

Have you tried looking at debug info?

Try running:

Code:

/usr/bin/maemo-summoner /usr/bin/modest.launch -s > /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/log 2>&1

and look at the log file in .documents.
by running

Code:

cat /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/log

Re: [N900] modest folders

Code:

N900:~$ /usr/bin/maemo-summoner /usr/bin/modest.launch -s > /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/log 2>&1

N900:~$ cat /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/log 

maemo-summoner: summoning '/usr/bin/modest.launch'

maemo-summoner: opening of /usr/bin/modest.launch took 345124 usec

N900:~$

Tried with reading some emails and closing, then again the same but also with deleting and recreating an account. Same results, only the times were different.

As I say, modest works fine. It's just the folder names on the file system that I have a question about. It created new folders,

Code:

./var/lib/gconf/apps/modest/accounts/Account5ID3

./var/lib/gconf/apps/modest/server_accounts/Account5ID3_store

./var/lib/gconf/apps/modest/server_accounts/Account5ID3_transport

./home/user/.modest/cache/mail/maildir/home/user/.modest/outboxes/Account5ID3

./home/user/.modest/outboxes/Account5ID3

How does it know that I had Account5ID, Account5ID1 and Account5ID2 once, even though I (thought that I) deleted all traces of them?

Re: [N900] modest folders

Did you actually remove the modest folders?

Would this score any effect?

Code:

gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/modest

Re: [N900][solved] modest folders

Quote:

Originally Posted by anthonie (Post 1303764)

Did you actually remove the modest folders?

Yes, after deleting the account in modest I found left-over folders on the file system and deleted them manually:

Code:

rm -r ./var/lib/gconf/apps/modest/accounts/Account5ID2

rm -r ./home/user/.modest/cache/mail/maildir/home/user/.modest/outboxes/Account5ID2

Quote:

Would this score any effect?

Code:

gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/modest

That was a bit drastic as it cleared all my accounts but once recreated, the folders started over without the 1,2,3 appendix.
Thanks, that's just what I was after.

Re: [N900] modest folders

Quote:

That was a bit drastic as it cleared all my accounts but once recreated, the folders started over without the 1,2,3 appendix.

Sorry for that as I assumed that wasn't a problem.

Quote:

How does it know that I had Account5ID, Account5ID1 and Account5ID2 once, even though I (thought that I) deleted all traces of them?

This, however, remains to be a good question.

Edit: Thanks for updating the thread title.

Re: [N900] modest folders

Quote:

Originally Posted by anthonie (Post 1303773)

Sorry for that as I assumed that wasn't a problem.

No it wasn't. I assumed it would do that. It was just a little warning if somebody else would try to follow :)