greets, folks . . .
is there a reliable, nondestructive way to force kmail to reindex a mail subdirectory?
thanks.
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 ...
Nik
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
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. I use old faithfull, mc to look for and do the cleanup .
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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 ;)
Best, Michael
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
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said Dr. Nikolaus Klepp:
| 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 ...
Many thanks. As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I had about 15,000 messages from an old OS/2 mail client stored in a kind of precursor to maildir that I hoped to merge with my existing KMail archive. I tried the various import options; the only one that worked was to import from Lotus Notes -- which put every message in its own directory! Fortunately, I only did about 5,000 messages that way. (And have been every spare minute extracting and filing them, which involved reading thousands of messages from 1996 and 1997, which was interesting but tiresome after awhile.)
Finally finished those and simply made a new KMail folder, MR2 stuff, and copied all the remaining 10,000 messages into it. Started up KMail. It asked to indes them. Which it did in about 10 seconds and now I'll be able to do in a couple of hours twice what I was able to do with the Lotus Notes import filter in more than three full days!
So many thanks indeed.
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