On 30 October 2011 16:03, Werner Joss werner@hoernerfranzracing.de 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