I had this same problem today and I think mutt whith notmuch patchs (mutt-kz that I used at the time or neomutt from Debian which I use now) generate those double slash when using the "copy" function from mutt. I had to recreate DB from dumps. On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:57:20PM +0200, francois@avalenn.eu wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a little problem here. > I have a message of which I had multiple copies and I deleted one of > them but "notmuch new" does not suppress this copy. > > $ notmuch search --output=files id:20150216180408.HA14616@myhost > /home/francois/Maildir/my_first_box/cur/1424110151_0.24869.myhost,U=742:2,S > /home/francois/Maildir/my_second_box/cur/1424110163_0.24869.myhost,U=14486:2,S > /home/francois/Maildir/my_third_box//cur/1429004021.3224_3.myhost:2,S > > The last copy is the one I deleted. > I tried to readd the message to this box and after I have this status : > > $ cp ~/Maildir/my_second_box/cur/1424110163_0.24869.myhost,U=14486:2,S ~/Maildir/my_third_box/cur > $ notmuch new > Processed 1 file in almost no time. > No new mail. > $ notmuch search --output=files id:20150216180408.HA14616@myhost > /home/francois/Maildir/my_first_box/cur/1424110151_0.24869.myhost,U=742:2,S > /home/francois/Maildir/my_second_box/cur/1424110163_0.24869.myhost,U=14486:2,S > /home/francois/Maildir/my_third_box/cur/1429004021.3224_3.myhost:2,S > /home/francois/Maildir/my_third_box//cur/1429004021.3224_3.myhost:2,S > > And if I redelete it I come back to beginning : > > $ rm ~/Maildir/my_third_box/cur/1429004021.3224_3.myhost:2,S > $ notmuch new > No new mail. Detected 1 file rename. > $ notmuch search --output=files id:20150216180408.HA14616@myhost > /home/francois/Maildir/my_first_box/cur/1424110151_0.24869.myhost,U=742:2,S > /home/francois/Maildir/my_second_box/cur/1424110163_0.24869.myhost,U=14486:2,S > /home/francois/Maildir/my_third_box//cur/1429004021.3224_3.myhost:2,S > > > I don't know how the file path with double slash was added in the > first place to the DB but I have a real problem with it. > > Anyone have any idea of how I can solve this ? > > $ notmuch --version > notmuch 0.18.2 > $ lsb_release -a > No LSB modules are available. > Distributor ID: Debian > Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie) > Release: 8.0 > Codename: jessie > > > > > F.