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27 <mazieres-n9pds38v5xanvju7995wf543cw@temporary-address.scs.stanford.edu>,
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29 Subject: Re: Enabling and disabling maildir.synchronize_flags
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34 Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 11:39:34 +0200
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52 dm-list-email-notmuch@scs.stanford.edu writes:
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54 > It seems that disabling it should simply be safe. But re-enabling, one
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55 > risks losing tags, as the next notmuch new will cause old maildir flags
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56 > to override the xapian database. So that suggests something like:
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58 > notmuch dump > backup
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59 > notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
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60 > # Do I need to run notmuch new here?
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61 > notmuch restore < backup
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65 Sorry about the long delay. I'm not sure I follow the connection between
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66 your paragraph above and the the example. The example seems safe, but as
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67 you say, disabling synching should bs safe anyway.
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