[kdepim-users] Re: HELP : about to loose 3000+ messages of my inbox

christophe christophe.dr at free.fr
Thu Mar 24 12:41:27 GMT 2011


Le Thursday 24 March 2011 10:59:16 Anne Wilson, vous avez écrit :
> [...]
>
> It's very likely that you can't retrieve the message that you already
> clicked on, but the rest should be retrievable.

Sad.

> Close KMail/Kontact.  Go to ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail - what you see from
> here on depends on how your mail is set up and your version (which is
> fairly old), but you are looking for files with names like
> inbox.index
> inbox.index.ids
> inbox.index.ids.sorted (maybe this is mis-remembered, bur 'sorted' is what
> you are looking for there)
> Delete those index files.  They will be recreated when you start KMail.

That's what i did but it lost about 300 mails from june 2010 til october 
2010 . That's a real bad thing because there some important stuff in 
there !!!

> This is a longstanding bug, but the cause was never discovered.  The
> re-write of KMail should see the end of this forever ;-)
>
> Anne

Thanks Anne.

-- 
christophe
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