Re: [Evolution] Msg Filters Loosing Destination Folder

[Philippe LeCavalier <support plecavalier com>]

On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 22:45 +0200, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 28.05.2010, 11:01 -0400 schrieb Philippe LeCavalier:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > 1)
> > I don't know if my expectations are realistic or even remotely
> > possible but could I not ask (post a bug) to have Evo remember paths
> > before clearing them in the likelihood that the user might need said
> > path?
> > 
> > 2)
> > To be perfectly clear, I can live with the "knowingly" but the
> > "unknowingly" is different. Today this happened  for no apparent
> > reason. Can someone out there help me determine the cause please and
> > pretty please? Hint: it problably starts with the reason why I was
> > unsubscribed to everything but the root, my Inbox.
> > 

Phil,
> I had the same problem when expunge of a folder would cause an error. I
> copied the folder somewhere, renamed the original and then moved the
> copy back to the original. 
> evolution would update the corresponding filter rule, to now contain the
> name <folder>.old, which I did not want.
> It might be of help to know that the rules are in an xml-file in
> ~/.evolution/mail/filters.xml, which I can edit and the running
> evolution would pick up the changes right away.
> Maybe you can just make a copy of filters.xml before you run your 
> procedure and then restore the copy on top of the falsely updated file.
> Hope that helps.
First-off, please don't top-post. It's annoying.

Second, Yes. That really helps. It's not a solution but it certainly is a workaround that I can easily apply. Better yet it will allow me to regularly backup my filters -separate from my entire dump.

Third, thank you.

Phil