On Tuesday 27 November 2018 15:20:22 Michael wrote: > On Tuesday 27 November 2018 01:53:39 pm Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 November 2018 14:06:54 Michael wrote: > > > On Tuesday 27 November 2018 05:44:56 am Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > > > Am Dienstag, 27. November 2018 schrieb dep: > > > > > greets, folks . . . > > > > > > > > > > is there a reliable, nondestructive way to force kmail to > > > > > reindex a mail subdirectory? > > > > > > > > > > thanks. > > > > > > > > Yes, just delete the index files *.index *.index.ids > > > > *.index.sorted. When you restart kmail, it'll rebuild the > > > > indices. If you want to be on the save side, create a copy of > > > > your mail folder and then delete the indices ... > > > > > > Ah, probably goes without saying, but KMail seems really twitchy > > > during start up when rebuilding (or loading?) its indexes. > > > Basically check top to see if it's finished. On my system it'll > > > suck up a full CPU for 5 to 20 minutes and is almost guaranteed to > > > crash if I try to do anything in KMail until it's finished. > > > > > > Best, > > > Michael > > > > I think I may have found the cause of that, I tried to run claws and > > it made some non-kmail files in the kmail Mail corpus. I deleted > > them and while I have had the advisory since but never the hour+ > > long cpu burn as seen by htop. 4 or 5 seconds after closing the > > advisory and its ready to work again. > > Hey Gene, > > The odds of me having non KMail files, or no longer supported file > fomats, there are really high, as I've manually transported the KMail > directories back from Mandrake to OpenSUSU, to ???, to CentOS, to > Ubuntu... > > > I use old faithfull, mc to look for and do the cleanup . > > What is this 'mc' you speak off? Has to be better than me doing a > manual scan ;) > Thats Midnight Commander to those of us using linux since back in the '90's, and now called just mc in the package managers windows, or in an xterm when you want to use it. Some distro's install it by default. Its the original *nix swiss army knife of two pane file managers. Highly recommended by grandpa gene. :) In terms of capability, its the king, the rest are just eye candy with virtually zero calories and very small wrenches. That said, be carefull what you do with it, you can destroy your system by using it wrong. > Best, > Michael > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting -- 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>