[kdepim-users] [Bulk] Re: Empty databases and recreate indexes from scratch

[ianseeks]

On Saturday, 19 March 2016 10:13:45 GMT René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Saturday March 19 2016 08:03:17 ianseeks wrote:
> >Is there a wiki or something that would instruct on how to remove all files
> >that feed off kmail and start it all from scratch?
> >
> >I'm not sure if i'm even asking the correct question.
> 
> In 4.1x, you had the following commands (to be executed without KMail
> running, and all email resource agents offline):
> 
> %> akonadictl fsck
> %> akonadictl vacuum
I'm on 5.1.3 but i'll try it and see what happens.  
> 
> The former does something akin to what fsck does with filesystems, the
> latter basically empties the whole database, causing all your mailboxes to
> be reloaded next time you open them. I'd say start with trying those. Those
> are asynchronous commands, so you'll probably want to run top immediately
> after each command, to monitor the activity of whatever application you use
> to do the actual database access (mysqld in my own case).
> 
> Have you checked with akonadiconsole's browser if those emails indeed appear
> in duplicate in the database? (Disregard that if deleting a copy in KMail
> doesn't delete all copies...)
> 
> R.