thanks didn't know about xapian-check !
the output
===
docdata:
blocksize=8K items=70 firstunused=3 revision=421 levels=0 root=2
B-tree checked okay
docdata table structure checked OK

termlist:
blocksize=8K items=186136 firstunused=62058 revision=421 levels=2 root=12260
B-tree checked okay
termlist table structure checked OK

postlist:
blocksize=8K items=2598971 firstunused=61412 revision=421 levels=2 root=49814
xapian-check: DatabaseCorruptError: Db block overwritten - are there
multiple writers?
===
suggests there is an error but I couldn't find a fix for it. Should I
just remove the xapian folder and rerun `notmuch new` ?

Thanks !

2020年4月7日(火) 15:03 David Bremner <david@tethera.net>:
>
> Matt <mattator@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > I have a script that runs mbsync followed by notmuch new.
> > It ends with `terminate called after throwing an instance of
> > 'Xapian::DatabaseCorruptError`.
> >
>
> Have you tried running xapian-check?
>
> d
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