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+From: James Vasile <james@hackervisions.org>\r
+To: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>,\r
+ Alex Ghitza <aghitza@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: Undo tag operation?\r
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+On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:48:53 -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:\r
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+> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:17:37 +0200, Alex Ghitza <aghitza@gmail.com> wrote:\r
+> > I just inadvertently removed the "todo" tag from all my "todo"-tagged\r
+> > emails (about 60 of them going back several months, so I doubt I can\r
+> > find them all again in my email haystack). So I have a few questions:\r
+> \r
+> Hey, Alex. This won't help you now, and doesn't really answer your\r
+> questions either, but you should periodically back up your tags with the\r
+> "dump" command. If you had a dumpfile backup of the tags you could\r
+> restore with "restore". hth (for the future).\r
+\r
+I generally run my notmuch commands through notmuch-retry. See\r
+http://notmuch.198994.n3.nabble.com/PATCH-Add-shell-script-notmuch-retry-td417192.html\r
+\r
+That could be easily amended to log tag commands. You could then\r
+restore from your most recent dump and replay all the tag commands since\r
+that dump, minus the offending command.\r
+\r
+Not a perfect solution, but it would work. Maybe I'll build it if I\r
+encounter some free time.\r