Tasks folder disappeared

[Diane Trout]

Hi,

For my own use I have Kontact 4.9.97 talking to a plain dovecot 2.1.7 server. 
(It doesn't have any of the meta-data or ACL components installed). I also had 
some kolab v1 files in the folder (which I removed while trying to fix this 
problem).

I'm not sure if this list is responsible for the kde kolab client component, 
but I'll share the bug here first.

For a bit it was working, akonadi had created 5 folders, 3 of which showed up 
in the korganizer part. Calendar, Journal, Tasks. I had a video display 
problem which caused me to stop the X server to try and recover. 

After getting X up and working again, the Tasks folder had disappeared. I 
tried several increasingly severe things to recover. 

At first I tried to recreate the folder from the "My Data" folder tree in the 
bottom part of korganizer. However none of my test tasks showed up. After 
remembering akonadiconsole I saw that the attributes & internals tabs for the 
tasks folder properties were blank.

I tried manually assigning the mime/type on the internals page, but wasn't 
sure what to set on the attributes tab so it didn't work.

I then tried removing & re-adding the kolab component through the system 
settings > personal information component. (Eventually trying "Create/Repair 
folders"). That didn't work either.

What I finally did was remove the kolab component and stopped akonadi with 
akonadictl stop. Then I logged into the IMAP server with mutt, and copied the 
tasks to a different folder. Next I sshed into the server and deleted 
INBOX.Tasks. I started akonadi, added the kolab component, and told it to 
create/repair the folders. Then I stopped akonadi again, and moved the task 
messages back into the folder. Finally I restarted all of the akonadi 
components and everything seemed to be working again. 

(I'm not sure If I needed to have akonadi stopped when I was modifying things 
by hand on the IMAP server, but it seemed like a good idea)

It'd be nice for there to be a way to back up the folder properties, or force 
assigning the folder attributes (e.g. ENTITTYDISPLAY, uidnext... and content 
types) from some KDE component. (akonadiconsole or korganizer.)

Diane