Control: reassign 727800 akonadi Hey, there are some newer versions and the bug you mentioned is marked as resolved fixed. The biggest issue with akonadi is, that older akonadi databases are often in kind of a broken state (something like < 1.10). That is/was not visible in ( < KDE 4.9), 'cause only kaddressbook uses akonadi so far. So for many users the upgrade process is kind of crual, and they have to reset akonadi database + config. Unfortunatelly the package system can't help here 'cause these are living inside the home folder... Well speaking as an upstream dev, hunting update errors is one of the hard ones. 'Cause normally users can't give you the state from before the upgrade and mail setups are so different... > But something was synchronizing, so I let it go. When it was > done (didn't follow closely, but ~20 minutes later) it had > restored my mails -- sort of. Yes akonadi has to index all mails. > It managed to forget the "read" status of ~3 months of mails, > so I suddenly had more than 4000 unread mails in my inbox. > The 3 months weren't the last ones, but mid April to mid July; > I suspect these were the first 3 months of KMail2 on this system. what kind of email folder do you use? imap, maildir, mboxes I never heard about this issue. > I have ~20 filters, most of them just send messages to different folders. When I looked at the filter configuration, I realized all the filter target folders were wrong. It wasn't too hard to resotre them, but it had to be done manually. Well the same can/is true for sent/draft folders for identities etc. I know it is annoying, but you to do it only once. > A) There was real (though minor) data loss -- the "read" status, > and the filters configurations; > B) There was what looked like data loss -- at first, seeing the > empty mail folders was scary; it is very easy to panic and kill > the program at that stage, which is likely to cause more serious > data loss. if you keep akonadi running everything will sync correctly :) btw. akonadi only indexes first and not touching the mails. So no you won't end up in a serios data loss. But I would advertise backuping all pim data before upgrade kdepim->kdepim 4.14. And yes leaving akonadi time to sync is also a good idea :) Regards, sandro
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