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Re: [fixed] looks like you found a bug

 

Is this issue somehow related with this one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/1409789 ?

2015-04-16 11:45 GMT+02:00 Hella Riede <hella_riede@xxxxxx>:

> Hi Andreas,
>
> What helped me was what I wrote below (deleting a file in zim shown as
> existing in zim even though it was not in that place in the file system
> anymore).
>
> b) didn't work. I tried many times before and after many complete restarts
> of zim. Next time, I would try your a).
>
> Thank you - I enjoy zim a lot :)
> Hella
>
>
>
>
> On 16/04/15 06:46, WEHLER Andreas wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Obviously the index is broken. Try:
>>
>>     a) rm .zim/*    # within your top level dir of your zim book
>>        # note, this dir may also be in your cache tree (see help):
>>        # ~/.cache/zim/...
>>     b) rebuild index
>>        zim --index <notebook-dir>
>>        # or, just start zim as usual and call  Tools - Update Index
>>
>> Enjoy.
>>
>>       Andreas
>>
>>
>> On 15.04.2015 19:46, Hella Riede wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> in my shell, I moved page by page and folder by folder out of the
>>> misbehaving zim subtree. It turned out that after I had moved one of those
>>> pages and its folder out of the zim folder, the page was still shown in zim
>>> (and not virtual / italic), but I could not find it in the actual folder on
>>> my computer in the shell. I deleted that "strange" real-in-zim but
>>> not-existing-in-shell page from within zim, moved the actually existing
>>> counterpart back into the zim folder by shell, and the index was behaving
>>> again.
>>>
>>> Sorry for disturbing you all - it seems Murphy wanted me to mail to all
>>> of just before I found a solution. Maybe it helps someone else in the same
>>> situation.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Hella
>>>
>>
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