2025-05-28

planted: 28/05/2025last tended: 28/05/2025

In the latest episode of 'Neil tries to update something related to Emacs' (see 2025-05-27):
- I thought that I might be able to process org-roam.db on my laptop, as that is faster, and then sync it to my phone.
- Two problems: firstly, it doesn't work. Not sure why but it must be checking something else other than version to check whether it needs processing. Secondly: the DB contains links to file locations, which are different between devices. So, ultimately a no go anyway.
- Ho hum. I'll need to think of a way of doing a full update of org-roam.db on my phone somehow without it taking an eternity / bombing out.
- At least I have an updated Emacs on my laptop!
Later: I fixed it by moving the files out of the org-roam dir for the project, then moving them back in and processing then in batches of 1000 at a time.
- Still took ages, but didn't crash and I just let each batch run while getting on with something else.
- I also learned that the slowness is probably down to me having the files on the shared storage rather than on termux's home. See e.g. https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/2174
Going to start moving some repos from Github and Gitlab to Codeberg.
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