On 30 October 2011 16:03, Werner Joss <werner@...> wrote: > On Sunday 30 October 2011 16:46:07 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> So, alternatively, is there some way I could tidy up the "corrupted" copy? > > if you still have the folder containing your emails (mine is > ~/.trinity/share/apps/kmail/dimap, might be somewhere else for you), > it should be ok to delete the (corrupted) index files: > > cd <your email folder> > rm -rf *.index > > kmail should be able to recreate the indices from there. > note: this applies if your mails are in a maildir-format structure, > mbox will need other procedure (not sure, which). Thanks, Werner! That's really helpful of you. I am itching to try (the older data that I have has dimap, but nothing in it), but having, as it appears, fried the clone, I shall leave accessing the "corrupted" disk until I have a better (read safer) method available, which will be in a few days' time. Lisi