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 And I just found another file, a mailfile in ~/liaM/inbox/cur, named gene. From an ls -l gene: -rw-rw---- 1 gene gene 497328196 Feb 3 2015 gene but at less than 500 megs, thats not all of them. Thats a fairly recent date, but I sure don't remember creating it. Thats one of the problems of advanced age, 8 decades so far. I don't recommend it. Avoid it as long as you can. :) What I do know is that I may have moved some of them just to speed up kmail, one of the other folders is right at 500 megs now, and accessing it is about 6 or 7 seconds to find a new mail. That gets boring too. Whats filelight? Something that _thinks_ its an mc? 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>