Fixing Corrupt Mail Folders in Evolution

I have been using Evolution for sometime now. I find that Evolution is a very stable and very functional software. But there have been times when due to a sudden, and unexpected system restart the database managing the various mailbox files and folders can become corrupted (in this case i shall be dealing with "database disk image is malformed"). It’s taken me a lot of time searching and a lot of headaches to find a solution.

I have tried using all solution and ideas that people of suggested on the web with no result. but finally i found an article which lead me here and it worked for me without loosing any email data.

Here are the step I used on Mint Linux:

1. Close Evolution client.

2. cd /home/<User Name>/.local/share/evolution/mail/local

3. Move the file /home/<User Name>/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/folders.db to trash of just rename it.

4. Restart Evolution client and let the folders sync.

Note: Location in Mint Linux is - ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local.

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