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On Dienstag 24 Februar 2009, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Greetings, |
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> After a power failure a few days ago, kmail-1.9.9 now has one message in |
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> one folder that can't be read, viewed, moved or deleted. It's shown at the |
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> top of the list instead of near the bottom, and nothing I can think of will |
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> make any change to it. |
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> Can anyone suggest a reasonably safe approach to getting rid of it? I don't |
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> mind losing it as long as I don't lose anything else. |
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> I suppose I could delete my home directory, create a new one and import |
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> kmail's stuff from the old to the new, together with other applications' |
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> stuff, but I don't know any way to import filters, and anyway it's an awful |
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> fag. |
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go into the mail directory and remove the index file. kmail must not running! |
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Then start kmail and let it re-index the directory. After that you can read |
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it, move it, remove it. |
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Maybe just rebuilding index is enough, but I had cases in the past where that |
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was not enough. |
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