Can you safely delete the /home/nemo/.vault directory ? [answered]

will the .vault get recreated? can you take backups after removing that dir?

If you remove it, you will no more able to run backup gui. To restore it try to executed following command from terminal or ssh session (it worked for me):

the-vault -V /home/nemo/.vault -a init -g "user.name=Happy Sailor,user.email=sailor@jolla.com"

this command creates a folder .vault in your home and creates .git and .vault into it To restore original permissions execute

chmod g-w -R /home/nemo/.vault/

and (as root)

chown -R nemo:privileged /home/nemo/.vault

After that, running backup gui, folder .modules will be created and you will be able to make backups again.

I hope this information is usefull to someone

Because of some very large files I deleted I had 9GB in .vault. Somehow I couldn't clear it even by deleting the backups. So I deleted the .vault folder. That's where the trouble started. The instructions given above didn't work! There's something wrong about the syntax of it. In particular the-vault cannot parse user.name with spaces. Git can, but it seems the-vault cannot.

So the fix is the-vault --vault=/home/nemo/.vault --action=init --git-config="user.name=Happy_Sailor,user.email=sailor@jolla.com" Then continue with the two other commands

Note the underscore instead of the space. I suppose you can really give any name and email you like. Preferably your own real one. the-vault also allows to pass a global identity with the --global switch.

I'm also curious to know if I could have fixed that .vault space problem in a cleaner way by giving the command 'the-vault --vault=/home/nemo/.vault --action=clear' I did not try it.