[Users] Wrong Folder?

[Dave Howorth]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 09:09:28 -0600
claws at cwm030.com wrote:

> On 2022-01-22 08:34, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> > I think that the file ownership is a red herring here. Unless Chris 
> > both
> > created the back-ups and restored them as root, it shouldn't be
> > possible for tar running as non-superuser to create files with
> > uid/gid different from the current user.  
> 
> 
> Ivan,
> 
> I missed A LOT of emails.. I just caught on ( a day later) that my 
> emails were going poof when I thought everything was fine.
> 
> I know, I know, I should of paid attention....
> 
> I was wondering why I had no emails yesterday.. I thought that was
> kind of odd and then, I just happen to be sitting here this morning
> drinking my coffee and Claws said it was downloading 19 emails but
> none of the folders lit up... Thats when I went into Red Alert mode.

One place mails can go without being highlighted is your spam folder.
Have you checked there?

> About backing up:
> 
> I just open Thunar ( yes I use Thunar in Gnome)
> 
> Right click on ( the folder is now called) /home/chris/CLAWS
> 
> and click COMPRESS
> 
> then, I am asked where do I want to save the file.. I click NEXTCLOUD
> 
> 
> 
> To restore the files:
> 
> I open Nextcloud
> 
> Go to my backup folder
> 
> right click on my CLAWS.tar.gz folder
> 
> I click on EXTRACT TO..............
> 
> then select /home
> 
> 
> I was just told by someone else that next time that I nuke and pave
> Extract my data
> 
> then instantly go to the terminal and do
> 
> chmod -R +rwx "/home/chris/CLAWS/"
> 
> Before launching Claws to check email for the first time.
> 
> 
> I hope that tidbit of information helps you ^^
> 
> I don't see how I am going wrong by doing that? I am not zipping the 
> files as sudo or unzipping them as sudo.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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