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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH "NAME" public\-inbox\-convert \- convert v1 inboxes to v2 .SH "SYNOPSIS" .IX Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 1 \& public\-inbox\-convert [OPTIONS] OLD_DIR NEW_DIR .Ve .SH "DESCRIPTION" .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" public-inbox-convert copies the contents of an old \*(L"v1\*(R" inbox into a new \*(L"v2\*(R" inbox. It makes no changes to the old inbox and users are expected to update the \*(L"inboxdir\*(R" path in \&\fBpublic\-inbox\-config\fR\|(5) to point to the path of \s-1NEW_DIR\s0 once they are satisfied with the conversion. .SH "OPTIONS" .IX Header "OPTIONS" .IP "\-\-no\-index" 4 .IX Item "--no-index" Disables Xapian and overview \s-1DB\s0 indexing on the new inbox. By default, public-inbox-convert creates a new index in the v2 inbox and indexes all existing messages, a lengthy operation for large inboxes. .IP "\-j \s-1JOBS\s0" 4 .IX Item "-j JOBS" .PD 0 .IP "\-\-jobs=JOBS" 4 .IX Item "--jobs=JOBS" .PD Control the number of indexing jobs and Xapian shards of the v2 inbox. By default, this is the detected \s-1CPU\s0 count but capped at 4 due to various bottlenecks. The number of Xapian shards will be 1 less than the \s-1JOBS\s0 value, since there is a single process which distributes work to the Xapian shards. .IP "\-L \s-1LEVEL,\s0 \-\-index\-level=LEVEL" 4 .IX Item "-L LEVEL, --index-level=LEVEL" .PD 0 .IP "\-c, \-\-compact" 4 .IX Item "-c, --compact" .IP "\-v, \-\-verbose" 4 .IX Item "-v, --verbose" .IP "\-\-no\-fsync" 4 .IX Item "--no-fsync" .IP "\-\-sequential\-shard" 4 .IX Item "--sequential-shard" .IP "\-\-batch\-size=BYTES" 4 .IX Item "--batch-size=BYTES" .IP "\-\-max\-size=BYTES" 4 .IX Item "--max-size=BYTES" .PD These options affect indexing. They have no effect if \&\*(L"\-\-no\-index\*(R" is specified .Sp See \fBpublic\-inbox\-index\fR\|(1) for a description of these options. .SH "ENVIRONMENT" .IX Header "ENVIRONMENT" .IP "\s-1PI_CONFIG\s0" 8 .IX Item "PI_CONFIG" The default config file, normally \*(L"~/.public\-inbox/config\*(R". See \fBpublic\-inbox\-config\fR\|(5) .SH "UPGRADING" .IX Header "UPGRADING" Editing \*(L"~/.public\-inbox/config\*(R" (or whatever \f(CW\*(C`PI_CONFIG\*(C'\fR is set to) will be required to start using the new directory. .SH "BUGS" .IX Header "BUGS" Writes from \fBpublic\-inbox\-mda\fR\|(1) or \fBgit\-fetch\fR\|(1) to the v1 inbox which occur after the start of the conversion will not be picked up in the v2 inbox. .PP Users of \fBpublic\-inbox\-watch\fR\|(1) do not have to worry about this. They only need to update the config file to point to the v2 inbox, send \f(CW\*(C`SIGHUP\*(C'\fR public-inbox-watch process to reload the config file, and then \f(CW\*(C`SIGUSR1\*(C'\fR to rescan existing Maildirs. .SH "CONTACT" .IX Header "CONTACT" Feedback welcome via plain-text mail to .PP The mail archives are hosted at and .SH "COPYRIGHT" .IX Header "COPYRIGHT" Copyright 2013\-2021 all contributors .PP License: \s-1AGPL\-3.0+\s0 .SH "SEE ALSO" .IX Header "SEE ALSO" \&\fBpublic\-inbox\-init\fR\|(1), \fBpublic\-inbox\-index\fR\|(1), \fBpublic\-inbox\-config\fR\|(5), \&\fBpublic\-inbox\-v1\-format\fR\|(5), \fBpublic\-inbox\-v2\-format\fR\|(5)