* David Bremner <david@tethera.net> [2023-07-19 12:26]:
> "Peter P." <peterparker@fastmail.com> writes:
> >
> > Thanks David,
> > 	$ notmuch dump --output=/tmp/dump
> > runs without errors, albeit the dumped file is only 6.9MB while the
> > xapian folder has 851MB. Is this correct?
> 
> Yes, that sounds about right. The dump only includes the tags (it should
> more or less make sense if you inspect the first few lines) rather then
> the index structures needed for fast lookup, and in particular the dump
> does not include the original text of the messages, while the database
> effectively does.
> 
> > I can easily rebuild the database even without the dump as I am not
> > using tags at all by simply deleting the xapian folder, right?
> 
> Yes, that should work.

Thanks again, this fixed the error!
best, P
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