Hi again! On 29 September 2012 23:00, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@...> wrote: > On 25 September 2012 19:53, leee <leee@...> wrote: >> On Tuesday 25 September 2012 17:07:58 Lisi wrote: >>> On Monday 24 September 2012 00:24:38 Slávek Banko wrote: >>> > On Monday 24 of September 2012 01:03:29 Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> > > I am restoring my KMail details from Lenny with KDE 3.5.10 to Squeeze >>> > > with TDE 3.5.13, patched with Slávek's patches. >> then >> check to see where 'folders[$e]' is pointing. > > folders[$e]=$HOME/Mail The email, to which this is a reply, had been sitting there waiting to be sent, and I clicked send a little too automatically just now. I actually wrote it many hours ago and I have since tried to open KMail. Although it is clearly finding the right folder, it is not opening. I get the following error message: ---------------------------------------------------- Problem with mail indices - KMail There is a problem with the mail index of the following folders, the indices will now be regenerated. This can happen because the index files are out of date, missing or corrupted. Contact your administrator if this happens frequently. Some information, like status flags might get lost. ___________________________ Debian inbox SouthWalesLUG Shopping _________________________ Since both Werner (on a previous occasion) and every reference I followed up in Google said that indices could be removed and would regenerate, I have been trying to delete them and get KMail to regenerate them. I have used Werner's rm -rf *.index command - several times , for good measure. I have been through my Debian, inbox, SouthWalesLUG and Shopping folders individually. I am now going manually through everything. I know that there were index files, but have not so far found a single one on my manual trawl. This is ridiculous. So near and yet so far... Since indices are clearly the problem, one way or another, and everyone seems to agree that indices can be deleted and will then regenerate, this _must_ be soluble. Has any of you helpful people any idea what I could try next? (Apart from finishing the very slow hand-trawl through.) Lisi