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From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, Ken <kensubuntu@gmail.com>,
	Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: database error
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:37:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21t1qcwjc.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eg5r3p8n.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca>

On Mon, Aug 15 2016, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:

> Ken <kensubuntu@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm getting the following error:
>>
>>
>> ken@ken-Presario-CQ57-Notebook-PC:~$ notmuch new
>> Error: Notmuch database at /home/ken/Mail/.notmuch
>>         has a newer database format version (3) than supported by this
>>         version of notmuch (1). Refusing to open this database in
>>         read-write mode.
>>
>> Can anyone help me fix this?
>
> Did you downgrade notmuch (i.e. is the message correct)? If so, can you
> undo that downgrade long enough to dump your database?

what does notmuch --version say...

note to us: we could add notmuch version information print to that error message



>
> d

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-15  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-14 17:14 database error Ken
2016-08-14 23:27 ` David Bremner
2016-08-15  7:37   ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-04-19 18:26 Database error Varac
2018-04-20 12:44 ` David Bremner
2018-04-20 12:57   ` Varac

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