Greetings, I noticed today that my mail filters weren't working right, so I had a look at them. I found 127 in place of the 30-odd there should be. Most of those are duplicates of good ones, and so I'm left with a dilemma: do I delete the lot and start from scratch; do I try to find an old backup with a good exported list of filters; or do I try to remove the rogues by hand? All those options are heavily error-prone.
By habit, I try to remember to export the filters to a text file whenever I make a change, so they should all be present in the text file if I haven't missed any. Recovery from backup sounds easiest, and indeed I have weekly, monthly and yearly backups going back over some years. The complication is that the exported list of filters will be buried in a tar file of my /home partition, so I'll need to 'tar tf' each file and grep for KMailFilters.txt. Easiest perhaps, but I may lose the will to live while waiting. My own ~/ directory is 6GB today; half of /home. Has anyone an idea? That nice Mr Google only casts gloom around. In my day, I might have written code to extract each filter into a file of its own, but that was 40-odd years ago. And the ToolbarName, the most easily recognised property of each filter, is somewhere in the middle of a block of 30-50 lines. -- Regards, Peter.
