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