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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
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Subject: Re: "The revision being read has been discarded - you should call
 Xapian::Database::reopen() and retry the operation"
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Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> writes:

>
> Seems that that fatals for the same reason:
>
>     % NOTMUCH_CONFIG=.config/notmuch/personal notmuch dump
>     A Xapian exception occurred opening database: Db block overwritten - are there multiple writers?
>
> I guess my best bet is to start with a fresh notmuch setup for this maildir?
>
> Thanks for your help, David. I appreciate that. :-)
>
> Chris

Very recent versions of xapian-check (1.3 +? not sure) have an option F to attempt to
repair the database. That's about all I can think of. If you have a lot
of effort in your metadata, you might ask on the xapian user list
<xapian-discuss@lists.xapian.org>.


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