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       Status: Unknown => New

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Title:
  Conversion of existing mailboxes fails silently

Status in The Evolution Mail & Calendaring Tool:
  Won't Fix
Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “evolution-data-server” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “evolution” source package in Intrepid:
  Fix Released
Status in “evolution-data-server” source package in Intrepid:
  Fix Released
Status in “evolution” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: evolution

  I have about 1.5 gigabytes in mail folders. Everything worked fine
  under Ubuntu 8.04. I backed up my mail through Evolution's backup
  function from the main menu of Evolution while still under 8.04. I
  then installed Ubuntu 8.10, brought up the new Evolution and attempted
  to restore from backup when prompted to do so under the new Evolution.
  The app would unpack the backup file and then proceed to attempt to
  convert the mailbox files from version 22 to 24 (sqlite). The
  conversion dialog would show a progress bar which constantly stayed at
  0% although the name of the mailbox file being processed did change
  from time to time so there appeared to be some activity (i.e. it did
  not "freeze"). However it took an extraordinary amount of time. I let
  it run for 15 or more hours. Finally I checked it and the dialog box
  was gone. I attempted to bring up evolution again and this time the
  conversion dialog box was displayed immediately and it appeared to try
  to go through the conversion process yet again. I let if complete
  again (another 12-15 hours) and attempted to bring up evolution a
  third time. Again, the conversion dialog came up and the process began
  to repeat a third time. I killed evolution at that point and am filing
  this bug report.

  Again, note that there was no indication of error and that progress
  bar constantly remained at 0% throughout.

  I tried to run gconf and set the version number of the app to 2.24.0
  as I read this was a work around that some folks had luck with but
  that did not help.

  I am now without the use of my primary mail application and have had
  to resort to using the web interface to my mail account at my ISP. Any
  assistance would be appreciated!

  Best regards,

  Peter Pavlovich
  pavlovich@xxxxxxxxx

  WORKAROUND:

  Test packages are available at https://launchpad.net/~hggdh2/+archive.
  Please install them and report back.

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