[Evolution] unexpected action when moving folders

[Douglas Summers]

On Thu, 2018-06-14 at 20:48 +0100, Richard Bown wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-06-14 at 20:34 +0100, Richard Bown wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> > I was tidying up my folder list, so I created a new folder, then
> > moved
> > two existing folders that had sub folders to it.
> > 
> > One moved without its subfolders , the other disappeared, so did
> > the
> > contents of the trash bin.
> > Is this normal operation Evo 3.18 ?
> > Is there anywhere locally it might have cached anything , or is it
> > lost
> > forever, using imap so it updated the other machines and the web
> > mail,
> > so no backup possible from elsewhere.
> Abit more
> I found one of the folders still intact on my android phone.
> So I tried to create a new sub folder to replace the missing one with
> same name, and got an error message the folder exists,but no
> subfolders
> are shown     arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I've had the same thing happen, also using 3.18 (Mint Sylvia). After I
shut down Evolution I went on the OWA website - got a Hotmail account -
and found that the folder structure was intact. If that's the case, you
may want to delete your old (Evolution) account and start over.