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On Tuesday 24 February 2009 19:18:03 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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You are probably using maildir for your mail - it's the default. Shut down |
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kmail completely. Go to ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/<folder>/cur, and delete |
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the actual file. grep can help you find it even if only by identifying the |
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files that isn't it. |
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Then delete the relevant index files in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail. |
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Your inbox for example is called .inbox.index.* and there will be three of |
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them. |
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Restart kmail, it will rebuild it's indexes and all will be well. |
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(With KDE-4, change those paths to ~/.kde4/.... |
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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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Don't delete your home dir! kmail keeps it's mail there and you will lose the |
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lot. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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