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