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 > _______________________________________________ > notmuch mailing list > notmuch at notmuchmail.org > http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch