On 30 September 2012 15:04, Werner Joss <werner@...> wrote: > Lisi, > Try deleting index files recursively, e.g. using find command, piped through > xargs. > Sorry for top-psting (k9 mail on android tablet...) > Werner And I can't sort it out for you because I am using Gmail. :-( I really don't like the Gmail interface. :-( It's great, though, for POP3 and an archive! I think that I have done that in the last few hours, but I'll try again. Plus a whole lot of other things. Since they didn't work I shan't document them But then I shall just have to give up on this approach. I need to regain my old box to put Fedora and Slackware on for the course I am doing, and rapidly dropping further and further behind. I'll get myself back to square one (ouch again), try the tarring method suggested earlier in this thread, and if that fails, just give up and use a new instance of KMail. I am sad that this should be necessary when I have all the emails and folders, but there is obviously something that is causing this problem somewhere in the Mail folder. Addendum some hours later: I shall not do this immediately because I am falling seriously behind on this course that I am doing. So I shall mothball the computer with my precious mails on, and use the monitor, keyboard and mouse, currently attached to it, to use my netbook as a desktop for now so that I can install and de-install to my heart's (and course's) content. Thanks so much for all the help so far. Lisi