[Evolution-users] Odd double-paste with middle mouse button? Obsolete versions

[Milan Crha]

On Tue, 2025-07-01 at 15:47 +0200, rsbrux wrote:
> Evolution has now for the second time lost my data and acts as if
> I am using it for the first time ("Welcome to Evolution").

	Hi,
this is weird, to say the least. It had been said in the other
thread(s) you opened regarding this problem that it's likely there is
something specific with your machine, because otherwise there would be
many bug reports about lost data. It would be good to figure out what
precisely removed the account settings for you. If it's a bug in the
code, then it looks like very hard to reproduce, considering the other
users.

> Would it even be possible to backport my data files from 3.56.x, or
> is there likely to be some incompatibility with the earlier version?

The 3.56.x and many previous versions have the same underlying data,
thus you can safely "downgrade" (use a backup from 3.56.x in 3.52.x).
The 3.58.x will have changed underlying format for the mail information
(basically that shown in the message list), where the "downgrade" to
the previous versions will not be possible. You can always restore from
backup to a clean Evolution and then check "what survived". There's
nothing to be lost, when the Evolution to restore at is clean.

	Bye,
	Milan