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 . > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
