.evolution directory disappeared when moving it - need help!

[Ari Torhamo]

ti, 2004-11-16 kello 07:59 +0100, Arnold Maestre kirjoitti:

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> Try not to worry too much, Ari, your data may be safe. Open a terminal
> (you don't need to be root to search files, actually you seldom need to
> be root at all), it should open in your home directory. Type:
> 
> find . -name ".evolution"
> 
> It should find your mail folder, which is very unlikely to have been
> copied anywhere else than in your home tree, because you don't have
> write permission elsewhere. My guess is, you dropped it on the desktop,
> and the view did not refresh, so it lies in /home/<your_login>/Desktop.
> 
> However, put it back in /home/<your_login>/, and you're done. Hope this
> works...
> 
> --
> A

Thank you Arnold - thank you, thank you! I found it. How silly of me,
but human too I guess: I had accidentally dropped the .evolution
directory to another directory which I had created for my personal files
and and which was set not to show the hidden files. The other two
directories that were open had the hidden files visible. Somehow I
(uncosciously) just couldn't think that the directories that were open
in front of my eyes could be in different states, or behave differently.

I found the missing directory with the help of your instructions for
using the find -command. After finding the missing directory, I went to
take a closer look at the Gnome search tool (I have finnish language
settings - don't know the exact english name). I had been sloppy. There
is an option to include the hidden files for the search, but I had
ignored it. Why to put in all these features, when people don't even
bother to use them :-)

Thanks again Arnold and thanks to you Eric Potter too for your thorough
anwser. I whish this had never happened, because... because... IT WAS SO
SILLY... and... I was so serious about it :-) I guess I finally have to
admit the truth to my self and admit it to others too - and do so in
public: my name is Ari and I'm a newbie :-)

Regards,
Ari Torhamo