Re: Is it safe to play with file_lost+found?

On Tuesday 04 of March 2014 10:31:14 Luis Felipe Tabera wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> In my akonadi folder there is a file_lost+found folder with 3K files and a
> size of 400MB.
> 
> I am wondering if it is safe to move, delete etc these files.
> 
> For instance I have a mail file of 22MB and the very same file is also in a
> local mail folder. So it seems that deleting the copy if file_lost+found
> would be safe.
> 
> fdupes show many duplicated files here.
> 
> Assume that I find a file that is truly lost+found, for instance a vcf file
> that should be in my personal contact list but it is not. Is it safe to
> move the file to its coorect location? Copying it maybe?

This is created by akonadictl fsck when files are found in file_db_data that 
reference to items that are no longer stored in Akonadi.

It is safe to delete content of this directory.

Cheers,
Dan

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Luis
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