From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Matthew Lear <matt@bubblegen.co.uk>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Inspired but need help searching folder names containing spaces
In-Reply-To: <54E3BAE1.1030004@bubblegen.co.uk>
References: <54E3BAE1.1030004@bubblegen.co.uk>
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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 08:56:56 +0100
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Matthew Lear <matt@bubblegen.co.uk> writes:

> mail/maildir/
> =E2=94=9C=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 INBOX
> =E2=94=9C=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 Deleted Items
> ...
> =E2=94=94=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 Sent Items
>
>
> notmuch search 'folder:"Deleted Items"'
>
> .. throws up zero results.
>

Hmm. I tried to duplicate your situation here, and it works for me. Two
things to try:

1) notmuch search --output=3Dfiles $QUERY

where $QUERY is some query (using e.g. id:) that matches one of those
messages. Check that you have have the whole anchored path from the top
level.

2) NOTMUCH_DEBUG_QUERY=3D1 notmuch count -'folder:"Deleted Items"'

have a look for XFOLDER:Deleted Items

3) try both of the above with "--exclude=3Dfalse" in case you have tagged
them with an excluded tag.  Note that by default "deleted" is such a tag.
You can change the excluded tags with "notmuch config"

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