On Tuesday 27 November 2018 01:53:39 pm Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 November 2018 14:06:54 Michael wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 November 2018 05:44:56 am Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > > Am Dienstag, 27. November 2018 schrieb dep:
> > > > greets, folks . . .
> > > >
> > > > is there a reliable, nondestructive way to force kmail to reindex
> > > > a mail subdirectory?
> > > >
> > > > thanks.
> > >
> > > Yes, just delete the index files *.index *.index.ids *.index.sorted.
> > > When you restart kmail, it'll rebuild the indices. If you want to be
> > > on the save side, create a copy of your mail folder and then delete
> > > the indices ...
> >
> > Ah, probably goes without saying, but KMail seems really twitchy
> > during start up when rebuilding (or loading?) its indexes.  Basically
> > check top to see if it's finished.  On my system it'll suck up a full
> > CPU for 5 to 20 minutes and is almost guaranteed to crash if I try to
> > do anything in KMail until it's finished.
> >
> > Best,
> > Michael
>
> I think I may have found the cause of that, I tried to run claws and it
> made some non-kmail files in the kmail Mail corpus. I deleted them and
> while I have had the advisory since but never the hour+ long cpu burn as
> seen by htop. 4 or 5 seconds after closing the advisory and its ready to
> work again.

Hey Gene,

The odds of me having non KMail files, or no longer supported file fomats, 
there are really high, as I've manually transported the KMail directories 
back from Mandrake to OpenSUSU, to ???, to CentOS, to Ubuntu...

> I use old faithfull, mc to look for and do the cleanup .

What is this 'mc' you speak off?  Has to be better than me doing a manual 
scan ;)

Best,
Michael