Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenha...@gmx.de> writes:

> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 03:51:06PM -0400, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> I have migrated (yet again) to another computer, and since I had
>> pretty good luck last time I did this, I just rsync'd the message
>> directories and ~/.mbsync over onto the new machine directly.
>> 
> you can do that, as long as you can be sure that no mbsync is running
> over either store while you are rsyncing. otherwise it's a recipe for
> disaster (by which i mean mail loss on the server).

Yup, I didn't touch anything while the sync was going on.

>> This has basically worked, except for two groups on one account which
>> are giving me "UIDVALIDITY of master changed". I notice that the state
>> directory contains extra .journal and .new files for these two groups.
>> The .new files are empty, the .journal files are large.
>> 
> that means that syncing did not complete.
> first make sure that the store you copied *from* is still ok and has no
> stale journals.
> then make sure no mbsyncs are running.
> then rsync again with --delete.
> then you can fire up the mbsyncs.

That did it, thanks a lot!

Eric


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