On Sunday 16 August 2015 02:38:48 Michele Calgaro wrote: > On 08/16/2015 06:58 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > My inbox, which has no expiry rules set, has gone from a 6 digit msg > > count encompassing dates back to 2002, had suddenly lost quite a few > > years worth of content, and is now showing 1522 msgs, for 91.2 > > megabytes. > > > > Loosely confirmed by a du -h performed in my Mail/inbox directory, > > so they are truly gone. > > > > 3 or so months ago, it was showing close to 695,000 msgs, and about > > 12 gigabytyes. However, another folder which also has no expiry > > rules, is showing north of 87,000 mesgs, & 481 megs occupied. > > > > Does anyone have a clue where they may have gone? > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Difficult to say :-) > But definitely *NOT* a 32 bit file count overflow, since the limit for > 32 bit unsigned counters is in the region of 4.3G and signed ones > 2.1G, so well above 695000. > I would definitely do things from CLI, but if you prefer graphical > tools, you may consider installing Filelight (if not already done) and > use it to try to locate the "big" folder with all your emails. Or use > Konqueror -> View -> View mode -> RadialMap view (not 100% but > probably it requires Filelight to be installed anyway). > > Cheers > Michele > I may have found about 2.5 gigs worth, in a backup directory I had made before installing TDE. My script might be able to handle that as incoming mail if I only move 5 or so at a time back into /var/spool/mail/gene. But mc, tha handiest way to do that is too fast if the whole thing is selected. So I'll see what I can do. Do any of our copy utils have an optional time delay between file copies, say 3 seconds so that kmail and my mailwatcher script would treat them as normal incoming email? I wouldn't care if it took a few hours. Thanks Michele. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>