Re: [sup-talk] Recovering a busted ferret db?

[William Morgan <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>]

Reformatted excerpts from Steven Walter's message of 2009-10-30:
> I think my ferret db is corrupted.  Whenever I do a tag search for a
> specific tag, sup loads 2 messages and then hangs.  Actually, it's
> using 100% CPU, but I have to kill -9 it; ctrl-c doesn't work.  Is
> there any hope of fixing this without losing all my tag information?

You can certainly move to the Xapian index without losing all of your
tags. Sup-dump will output everything precious from your index.

Is it possible you have a very large thread with that label? E.g.
thousands of messages, all replying to each other, from some script?
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>
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