Re: [Evolution] Search function / indexing not working?

[jim <cinetron passport ca>]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 11:51 -0500, jim wrote: 
> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 16:34 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 11:06 -0500, jim wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 12:10 -0500, jim wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > I'm on KUbuntu 9.04 and using Evo. 2.26 . For some reason my search
> > > > > function in Evo. is not working properly. If I type in a name from whom
> > > > > I want to see emails I get a whole bunch of other emails that have no
> > > > > resemblance to the search term or name I entered. IT works ok on my Sent
> > > > > folder, just not Inbox.  For a day after I updated my system it was
> > > > > working fine again then went haywire . Also sometimes when I am
> > > > > downloading email it locks up and I have to cancel the download and
> > > > > start again. I know in the past there was a problem going over 2 GB with
> > > > > a message folder is that still the case? I tried moving some messages
> > > > > from my Inbox folder to another folder but for some reason the size
> > > > > didn't seem to change even after expunging ? Any suggestions how to fix
> > > > > my system.
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > > JIm
> > > > I fixed this by deleting my Inbox.ibex.index file. 
> > > > Jim
> > >
> > > Actually this didn't work for long. I also tried deleting other Inbox.*
> > > files. Everything was good for a while. I think it may be after I closed
> > > Evo. and started it again that it stopped working. Seems like indexing
> > > keeps getting corrupted. Any thoughts as to what is going on?
> >
> > Did you shutdown Evo fully using 'evolution --force-shutdown' before
> > deleting the indexes?  If you didn't, you should do.
> Hmm I did when I just deleted the Inbox.ibex.index file but I don't
> think I did when I deleted the other files. I'll try again. Thanks for
> the suggestion.
> Jim

I found that I had to delete folders.db as well. Now everything seems to
work. Thanks again for the help.
Jim
> > P.
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