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On Friday 29 May 2015 17:02:18 Mick wrote: |
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> On Friday 29 May 2015 16:36:59 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Friday 29 May 2015 16:19:38 Mick wrote: |
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> > > On Friday 29 May 2015 10:36:37 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > > I had two sets of problems: one in KDE which I might have nailed |
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> > > > finally [1], and one at boot time in which /dev/md7 (RAID-1 with |
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> > > > metadata > 1.0) was not being started. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > [1] Whenever I've had KMail screw up I've created a new user and |
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> > > > re-imported its 14,000 e-mails, and until this latest time I've copied |
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> > > > the .mozilla directory from the old user to the new. This time I did |
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> > > > not, and so far all looks rosy. I'm not counting any chickens yet |
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> > > > though. |
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> > > |
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> > > Did you try deleting the akonadi database file(s) and restarting it |
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> > > instead of creating a new user? You will have to be patient, probably |
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> > > let it run overnight to asynchronously sync and re-index all your |
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> > > messages. |
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> > |
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> > I don't think I dare risk it: |
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> > |
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> > $ find . -name \*akonadi\* | wc |
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> > |
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> > 49 49 2665 |
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> > |
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> > $ find . -name \*akonadi\*dat | wc |
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> > |
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> > 13 13 901 |
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> > |
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> > How would I know which to delete and which to leave alone? No, it may be |
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> > more work to start again with a clean slate, but at least I can be |
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> > confident of not screwing anything up too badly. |
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> |
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> This is how I would try it out: |
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> 1. Create a back up of your complete /home. |
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> 2. akonadictl stop |
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> 3. Rename/move ~/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ (or delete it since you now |
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> have a back up of this mess). |
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> 4. akonadictl start. |
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> Then go and make a brew, because this can take some time. I have hundreds |
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> of thousands of messages, so mine takes forever. I even thought of |
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> deleting most of my Google messages to accelerate this process, if I ever |
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> move to Kmail2. |
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Well, I tried it as you suggested, but I shan't bother again. Not only did it |
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not take any apparent time at all to run, but the result was loss of a folder |
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tree containing more than half of all my e-mails. |
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So what worked in KMail-1, it seems, doesn't work in KMail-2. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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