Well, deleting the .trash.index and .trash.index.sorted file did not work.
So, what I did was delete all emails from the trash in kmail that were Later
than the "partition changes" thread and when I got right up to that thread,
it suddenly appeared in the kmail trash.
Evidently, the later dated emails allow an earlier thread to be corrupted in
the index.
Smitty
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 11:45, you wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Smitty wrote:
> > I just moved a slug thread "partition changes" to the trash and now I
> > cannot find it in the trash, but using a text editor can find it in the
> > kmail trash file. It is there but will not display. I am using kmail
> > 1.3.1 Is this a bug or a feature? How do I fix it?
> > Smitty
>
> I've seen this kind of thing discussed on the Kmail list when I was
> investigating similar things happening to mine. It seems there has been a
> problem with the index files becoming corrupted. Stopping and starting
> Kmail might fix it. I've also seen missing messages appear after
> switching between folders or forcing a resort, by date or sender, for
> instance. Another trouble-shooting tip they had was to delete the index
> files and let Kmail recreate them the next time it gets launched. They
> were talking about files like ~/Mail/.trash.index. Note that it is a
> hidden "." file. There is an index file and maybe a sorted index file
> for each folder you use. Please infer here all the normal caveats and
> warnings about deleting application files, such as backing them up,
> renaming them, not letting the application attempt to access or lock
> them, etc.
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