[AuckLUG] Evolution email files

[Michal Ludvig]

Rick wrote:

> I have a problem copying my email files from evolution, which has
> prevented me from doing a clean install for quite some time as I cannot
> backup my email. Whenever i try to copy any part of the .evolution
> folder, I get errors claiming an 'invalid parameter'. If I skip, it will
> just keep skipping through all my mail and addresses, effectively
> killing the process. It does the same to backup programs, which return
> errors too. 

Can you show us your exact command line and last few lines of the output
including all errors?

For instance "tar" should be clever enough to handle all strange
characters in file names and shouldn't return any error. "rsync" is even
better in this job. If both fail there may be a problem with your disk
or filesystem. Does output of command "dmesg" reveal any hints? Have you
rebooted recently? Dare to reboot now? The filesystem may be checked and
fixed during reboot. Or you may explicitly want to run "fsck" on it. Or
it's something completely different but without the actual errors it's
hard to guess.

Michal