<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Clarification: Instead of "full of 11-byte text files" which is too vauge.. I should've said "full of 11-byte text files, each one corresponding to one of the IMAP folders.. (INBOX, INBOX.Sent, INBOX.Trash, INBOX.Junk, INBOX.Archives, etc.)"<br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><br><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> chris coleman <christocoleman@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> offlineimap mailing list <offlineimap-project@lists.alioth.debian.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, April 28, 2011 10:09:58 AM<br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: ERROR in syncfolder for (username) folder INBOX : null byte in argument for long()<br></font><br>
<div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;">Sebastian:<br><br>Just to be sure. On my machine, this folder ( ~/.offlineimap/Repository-IMAPLocalUsername/FolderValidity ) is full of 11-byte text files containing a large number like this: 1288942674<br><br>You're saying I should delete some/all of these 11-byte files, and run offlineimap , and they will be quickly and harmlessly regenerated. And that should correct the error for this first account. Correct?<br><br>Chris<br><br><br><br><div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de><br><b><span style="
font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> chris coleman <christocoleman@yahoo.com>; offlineimap mailing list <offlineimap-project@lists.alioth.debian.org><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, April 28, 2011 8:47:16 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: ERROR in syncfolder for (username) folder INBOX : null byte in argument for long()<br></font><br>
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:52:52 -0700 (PDT), chris coleman <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:christocoleman@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:christocoleman@yahoo.com">christocoleman@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Thanks Sebastian.<br>> <br>> UIDVALIDITY... this folder doesnt exist. <br>> <br>> Do you mean UIDMapping or FolderValidity ??<br><br>I meant FolderValidity, yes.<br><br>Repairing that one will not take a lot of time, as it does not involve<br>any resync.<br> <br>> How much time will it take to recreate these files when there are 100,000 <br>> messages ? Probably many hours, right ?<br>> <br>> If I blow away (move away) ONE of the files inside these folders, will <br>> offlineimap recreate just the one file ??<br><br>UIDMapping will still be needed, don't blow that one away, or it will<br>duplicate all emails on the "LOCAL" side, as it doesn't know which one<br>it already had
duplicated.<br><br>Sebastian<br></div></div>
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