On 2025-07-31 19:27, Tomas Hlavaty <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu 31 Jul 2025 at 12:27, Alan Schmitt <[email protected]> > wrote: >> (which is significant as all my messages where duplicated). Is there a >> way to do this using notmuch (as it is already identifying duplicates), >> or do you recommend another tool (maybe a file deduplication tool)? > > copy all messages to a directory, where each message filename is > sha256sum of the file contents, then remove the originals > > notmuch does not seem to care much about the message filenames, > except reindex might take a long time
Unfortunately not only mbsync cares about the file name, but it adds a header when syncing, so the files are not fully identical (I tried running fdupes before realizing this). Alan
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