"Peter P." <peterparker@fastmail.com> writes:

> notmuch compact throws
> Compaction failed: A Xapian exception occurred
> and I can't find a way to fix it. Just had my database rebuilt by
> deleting the xapian and xapian.compact folders (to work around a previous
> error) and running notmuch new and notmuch compact.

It is surprising that a recreated database has errors.

Can you try running

    xapian-check $DATABASE_PATH/xapian

and see if there are any errors?

I guess smartctl (or your OS equivalent) to check for disk hardware
problems is another option.

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