Local email database corruption

[brimwats (Bri Watson)]

Description

Mailspring’s local database is corrupted and I can’t rebuild it.

To Reproduce…

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Try to launch mailspring?

Expected Behavior

Mailspring launches

Screenshots

I get this notification

“Quit” does not do anything
“Rebuild” does not do anything.
Force Closing the app and restarting results in this popup

Setup

Mailspring 1.9.1
Windows 10 Education 20H2
Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.551.0

Additional Context

I am happy to share logs but not sure how to get them to you, rebuild and close do not do anything for mailspring.

[ESEricWare (Eric)]

Hi,

i have the same problem…
Is there any process?

[brimwats (Bri Watson)]

I did not find one, and development on Mailspring seemed to drop off a bit so I moved to eM Client for now

[Phylu (Janosch Braukmann)]

Sorry for the late reply.

I would try to delete the mailspring data folder and re-configure the mail accounts.

[ioannis (JD)]

I have the same issue on Windows 10 Pro. How can this be fix?

[Predeactor (Julien Mauroy)]

Hi everyone, I suggest you to check out the guide I’ve done over there:

Database Error and unable to launch app after installing V1.10.0

Hello everyone. As I’ve ran into the issue myself, I also find a better workaround, following @dgiakoum’s advice, so all thank to him. This method will not erase your data, settings, themes, etc… so you’re safe to read this guide. I would also like to mention that the developers of Mailspring are working ASAP on the issue, hopefully a hotfix will arrive soon! Killing Mailspring Instance First of all, it is important to “kill” Mailspring, because it is probably running in the background, as …

It helped many peoples, I hope it will for you too!

[ogamiexecutioner]

This worked for me. Thank you!!