clean up akonadi!

[henge]

is there any way to safely clean up the /home/henge/.local/share/akonadi/file_db_data/ folder?
having googled it, opinions seem to differ as to whether the entire folder (currently nearly 3gb in size) can safely be deleted.
cheers!

[SteveRiley]

Do the files in that folder constitute the only copies of your emails? Or is everything also stored on an IMAP server someplace?

[henge]

i have two accounts active through kmail, gmail and a university account accessed through IMAP, so the simple answer is yes.

[SteveRiley]

Then you should be able to delete everything in ~/.local/share/akonadi. Do it outside KDE, then log in and restart Kmail. Allow Akonadi to recreate the MySQL database and re-download all your email. I've done this before.

But save a copy of the folder first, just in case

[henge]

worked! akonadi folder is now just over 1gb in size.
thanks for the help and advice.

[Guest]

Cleaning up akonadi - official instructions

The proper procedure for wiping all of akonadi is described at ... see next post, this forum won't let me post a link in my first post.

Warning: with IMAP this would lose any local changes that haven't been uploaded to the server yet.
But to sort out a broken setup (e.g. due to first testing akonadi with a very old version of it), it can be useful, to "start from scratch". I used this to solve a "PimItemFlagRelation: duplicate entry" error message when syncing the inbox, still present after upgrading 4.10 -> 4.12. Better code but bad DB -> DB cleanup needed.

[Guest]

The proper procedure for wiping all of akonadi is described at http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdepim...migration.html.