Here is the listing for /Mail/saved_mail I don't see anything that could be called index files, or sorted files, or anything like that. Now what? doug@linux:~/Mail> ls drafts inbox outbox saved_mail sent-mail trash doug@linux:~/Mail> cd saved_mail doug@linux:~/Mail/saved_mail> ls cur new tmp doug@linux:~/Mail/saved_mail> cd cur doug@linux:~/Mail/saved_mail/cur> ls 1085530773.4314.RbbCw:2,S 1085530963.4314.HlP1i:2,S 1085531676.4314.uRNWV:2,S doug@linux:~/Mail/saved_mail/cur> cd .. doug@linux:~/Mail/saved_mail> cd new doug@linux:~/Mail/saved_mail/new> ls doug@linux:~/Mail/saved_mail/new> cd.. Error: Try: cd .. doug@linux:~/Mail/saved_mail/new> cd .. doug@linux:~/Mail/saved_mail> cd tmp doug@linux:~/Mail/saved_mail/tmp> ls doug@linux:~/Mail/saved_mail/tmp> cd .. doug@linux:~/Mail/saved_mail> doug@linux:~/Mail/saved_mail> apparently new and tmp are empty. I guess that cur contains just the 3 files I can still see. Is there a way to get a directory tree, like in Windows? This seems like a very clumsy way to look at the directory tree. On Tuesday 25 May 2004 21:37, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Doug McGarrett [05-25-04 19:53]:

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In kmail, you can save mail to a "saved_mail" file, which I created. Or I thought you could. After inputting about 50 or 60 messages, over the past several weeks, all but 3 are gone. (9.1)

cd to the directory Mail/saved_mail and remove *all* the index files, .saved_mail.index, .saved_mail.index.ids and .saved_mail.index.sorted.

restart kmail and it will recreate the indexes. If *you* didn't tell kmail to ?expire? the mail, it didn't.

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I have _not_ checked anything about expiring messages in the setup. Must I go back to MSWin and use Eudora? I sure wish there was a version of that for Linux!

On Tuesday 25 May 2004 09:57 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:

Here is the listing for /Mail/saved_mail I don't see anything that could be called index files, or sorted files, or anything like that. Now what?

Try the following cd Mail ls -la cd .saved-mail.directory ls -la You should see a lot more stuff! -- Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. robert@paulsenonline.net

On Wednesday 26 May 2004 07:45, you wrote:

On Tuesday 25 May 2004 08:51 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:

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In kmail, you can save mail to a "saved_mail" file, which I created. Or I thought you could. After inputting about 50 or 60 messages, over the past several weeks, all but 3 are gone. (9.1)

I have _not_ checked anything about expiring messages in the setup. Must I go back to MSWin and use Eudora? I sure wish there was a version of that for Linux!

To threaten to go back to Windows is not a way to ask for help. Most of us might wish that you would..... with that attitude. :-)

I _don't want_ to go back to Windows. I am trying very hard to put Linux to good use. There seem to be a lot of questions that I can't easily find the answers to. For example: snapping on "My Computer" brings up a Konqueror window labelled "drives:/" which shows my two CD types, my floppy, and my (separate) Windows h/d, but _not_ my Linux h/d, which would be a big help to me if it did. Can it be made to? How? --doug

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