Complete lockup in KMail

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday, 3 January 2017 19:43:19 GMT Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2017, 18:28:50 CET schrieb Peter Humphrey:
> > > I was stuck recently after a semi-failed upgrade.  After messing with
> > > the
> > > akonadi database for a few hours I finally just shut akonadi down
> > > ('akonadictl stop'), removed ~/.local/share/akonadi ('rm
> > > ~/.local/share/akonadi') followed by a start ('akonadictl start'). 
> > > The
> > > start will see that the database is gone and rebuild it from scratch.
> > 
> > Ah, now there used to be a trick whereby stoppint akonadi, removing
> > .local/ share/baloo (I think it was) and starting akonadi again would
> > have the same effect. But with the current version(s) it has no effect
> > at all. That directory stayed gone when I tried it. Thanks for the tip.
> 
> The search database has moved to ~/.local/share/akonadi/search_db on
> splitting out mail indexing into an akonadi component (Akonadi Search).

So if I delete that directory and restart akonadi, will it rebuild all the 
indexes?

(Sorry about the late reply; I've been doing a lot of wrestling lately.)

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Regards
Peter