28 Jun
2021
28 Jun
'21
5:41 p.m.
On Monday 28 June 2021 12:21:18 pm Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Ok, at last I got hit by the same problem: Each time I
start kamail, one
index file wants to be rebuilt. Please not, not all index files, just one.
Deleting all *.index and *.index.ids does not change anything.
What I did:
2 days ago: dist-upgrade --> everything works as expected, not strange
messages. Just some hours ago: dist-upgrade pulled in some TDE updates -->
index files of one folder gets rebuilt when I start kmail.
Hi Nik,
I've had a similar issue for years with KMail. Most (all?) index files get
rebuilt every time I start it. (This also causes KMail to mostly crash every
time you search as well.)
The best I've ever figured out is that there are ‘odd’ files/filenames/mails
in the directories that don’t index correctly, so every time KMail starts it
thinks it needs to re-index. Not that I've ever verified this as I have more
than a million emails that KMail handles, and I’m not going to dig through
all of them to find the ones that have some broken umlaut, or whatever screwy
hex code, that’s causing the issue.
Since you only have one directory with a problem, try ??
- close KMail
- copying the ‘bad’ dir somewhere,
- remove the ‘bad’ dir
- start KMail
- see if that gets rid of the problem
If it does, at least you’re down to just one set of junk to sift through...
Best,
Michael