[ale] weirdness

[kilpatms at comcast.net (kilpatms at comcast.net)]

In order:

No. I have never used su or sudo outside of a shell.

No. this is not an NFS mount.

I am guessing here, but I >think< Evolution has either lost or scrambled the mail index
for the various folders.  Without an index it can't display the files that still exist.
For example, I know that there are 61 emails in the "Linux" folder. Evolution knows the folder is there, but without an index it shows the folder as empty. I also know that the folder "inbox" has completely disappeared, along with the mail stored there.

If a group is missing, I don't know which one it might be.  I checked in /etc/group and all the usual ones are there -- along with a dozen or more I never knew existed.

If there is some way to get Evolution to rebuild the indexes, I have been unable to find it.

Sean



----- Original Message -----
Have you **ever** use sudo with any GUI program like gedit, nautilus, or
any other tool?

        The short answer is DON?T DO THAT.

sudo chmod -R userid.userid ~/

will fix it. Change out ?userid? for your real userid and primary group,
of course.

Looks like the system had a group removed too.  Is this an NFS mount?