folder and path completely broken in HEAD?

[Mark Walters]

Hi

Before checking other things: have you run notmuch new? That's needed to
update the database. It is an irreversible update so notmuch-0.17 will
not work with the updated database.

The update should save a dump of the tags before updating but you might
want to do that manually too (and maybe even keep a complete copy of the
database). The update might take quite a long time (but it can be
interrupted and restarted)

Best wishes

Mark


On Fri, 02 May 2014, dm-list-email-notmuch at scs.stanford.edu wrote:
> Hey, I'm playing around with the head of the git repository
> (bc64cdce289d84be2550c4fccb1f008d15eaeb0e) to try to figure out how the
> new folder: prefixes work, as folders are a critical part of how I
> organize my mail.  (Since tags are not hierarchical, folders are the
> best way for me to group mail to a bunch of related addresses, while
> retaining the ability to separate out any mailboxes that become high
> traffic.)
>
> I'm using a pretty standard maildir++ layout.  For example, underneath
> my database.path I have a bunch of mail in directories such as:
>
>     .INBOX.Main/{new,cur}
>     .mail.class/{new,cur}
>     .mail.voicemail/{new,cur}
>
> It used to be the case that if I wanted to read all of my "mail" mail, I
> could search for folder:mail, while to look at just voicemail, I could
> say folder:mail.voicemail, etc.  Now, I can't get anything to match a
> folder predicate period.  For example, using notmuch as notmuch-0.17 and
> ./notmuch as notmuch-0.18-rc2+2~gbc64cdc, here's what I get:
>
>         linux2$ notmuch count folder:mail
>         16257
>         linux3$ notmuch count folder:mail.class
>         1896
>         linux4$ notmuch count folder:mail.voicemail
>         34
>         linux5$ notmuch count folder:mail.voicemail/cur
>         34
>         linux6$ notmuch count folder:.mail.voicemail/cur
>         34
>         linux7$ ./notmuch count folder:mail
>         0
>         linux8$ ./notmuch count folder:.mail
>         0
>         linux9$ ./notmuch count folder:.mail.voicemail
>         0
>         linux10$ ./notmuch count folder:.mail.voicemail/cur
>         0
>         linux 11$ ./notmuch count path:.mail.voicemail
>         0
>         linux 12$ ./notmuch count path:.mail.voicemail/'**'
>         0
>         linux 13$ ./notmuch count path:.mail.voicemail/cur 
>         0
>         linux 14$ ./notmuch count folder:mail.voicemail
>         0
>
> What gives?  Are the path and folder predicates completely broken, or is
> something very important missing from the new notmuch-search-terms
> manual page?  How can I make this work?
>
> Thanks,
> David
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