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Berthold Lorke <berthold@lorke.de> writes:

> thanks!  no it doesn't.  i guess there then is in fact an indexing error.
>
> you omitted a search term in the second line, i tried '*', with wildly different numbers.
>
> what could be the problem i have with indexing?

I can't really understand what would cause

"notmuch count '*'" to output something different than

"notmuch search --output='*' | wc -l".

I was thinking if they were both small, but equal, that would indicate
"notmuch new" skipping many files.