On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 04:17:55PM -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> I haven't experienced this which is why I haven't commented.  That being
> said, you could try running kbuildsycoca --noincrememntal (as the user
> experiencing the problem) to fully regenerate the database and see if that
> helps.

Maybe I should have been more inclined to experiment... this option
did indeed restore the cache.

But after a week of restoration of data from a crashed hard disk,
during which each inconsiderate experiment can lead to more data,
I was probably overly cautious...

Thanks a lot! (Adding this to my collection of useful recipes.)
 
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