Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe.

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

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