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And when I clicked the “settings” link I’d see this: \n Error opening the database: DatabaseUnlockError(“Invalid passphrase”)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Clicking on the “Reset” button brought a scary warning dialog (“you probably don’t need to do this”\u2014yeah, I kinda think I do) but clicking through it didn’t actually seem to do anything.<\/p>\n Searching for those terms got me to a github issue<\/a>. Nothing seemed resolved but I found a message in the middle that helped me fix the problem.<\/p>\n Here’s what I did:<\/p>\n Viola! Working search again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My MacOS Element Matrix client (Electron based) started getting errors when I searched. My Windows Matrix client worked just fine, so I was pretty sure it wasn’t a server issue. When I typed anything into the message search I’d get this error right underneath: “Message search initialisation failed, check your settings for more information” And … Continue reading Fixing Element Search<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porkrind.org\/missives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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cd ~\/Library\/Application Support\/Riot<\/code>. I had to poke around till I found that. There was also<\/em> a ~\/Library\/Application Support\/Element<\/code> but it seemed older and out of date, oddly.<\/li>\ntar cjf EventStore-bad-2023-06-18.tar.bzr EventStore<\/code>. This made a backup copy of the EventStore directory just in case I needed it (I didn’t).<\/li>\nrm -rf EventStore<\/code>. Kill it with fire.<\/li>\n