[SLE] Looking for my mail in a lost Linux partition

From: Shriramana Sharma (samjnaa_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/28/05

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    I moved my /home contents to a FAT partition at the end of my disk
    with the intention of resizing and reformatting my Linux partitions
    and clean-upgrading to SUSE 10 (RC1). I gave SUSE 10 YaST the
    repartitioning and software package selection instructions, started
    the setup and went to sleep (it was late). When I wake up I find that
    for some reason the install is faulty and my backup FAT partition is
    gone.

    Now I have successfully reaccessed that FAT partition from PC
    Inspector on Windows XP, and copying files from that partition to my
    XP partition (should have done that in the first place) so I can wipe
    the rest of the hard disk and start install over again. Thank God I
    decided on a freak impulse to use a FAT partition for backup. I doubt
    PC Inspector would have detected stuff on an ext3 or reiserfs
    partition.

    Now I have backed up all my software archives (entire KDE 3.42 etc) to
    Windows, and only thing that remains is my mail. Where do I find it
    for backing up?
    http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdepim/kmail/faq.html#id2605128
    told me to look under ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/. What I see is this:

    ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/

     <DIR> Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 11 KB gmail
     <DIR> Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 1 KB inbox
     <DIR> Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 30 KB linux
     <DIR> Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 1 KB trash
     <DIR> Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 1 KB drafts
     <DIR> Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 1 KB sent-mail
     <DIR> Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 1 KB outbox
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 0 KB .sent-mail.index.ids
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 0 KB .drafts.index.ids
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 0 KB .trash.index.ids
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 1 KB .gmail.index.ids
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 35 KB .linux.index.sorted
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 114 KB .gmail.index
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 12 KB .gmail.index.sorted
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 352 KB .linux.index
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 0 KB .outbox.index.ids
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 0 KB .drafts.index.sorted
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 0 KB .trash.index
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 0 KB .outbox.index
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 3 KB .linux.index.ids
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 6 KB .inbox.index.sorted
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 0 KB .sent-mail.index
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 0 KB .outbox.index.sorted
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 1 KB .inbox.index.ids
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 55 KB .inbox.index
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 0 KB .drafts.index

    Now I go into my linux folder, where I had over 600 mails. What I see
    is just this:

    ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/linux/cur

                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 3 KB 1127838133.8468.8OKk1
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 4 KB 1127753083.7778.qCNPE
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 3 KB 1125949189.7912.24Njw
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 3 KB 1127811450.9746.v4dtL
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 4 KB 1127829717.9746.R35h5
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 3 KB 1127838270.8468.41sOv
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 3 KB 1125949191.7912.hFQpD
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 3 KB 1126005183.7843.FMmJY
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 1 KB 1125949892.7912.bQmpO
                  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:45 3 KB 1126007496.7843.GggTY

    Somehow these file sizes don't look right. I see a lock file in the
    ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail folder. Perhaps kmail didn't shut down
    properly? Do I have to recover the mail from elsewhere?

    Contents of lock file:

    appName=kmail
    hostname=linux
    pid=-1
    programName=KMail 

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