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I'm planning a cleanup on my email server and i'm seeing 17k+ of unexpected blobs in the blob check process. I need some information on this, what causes unexpected blobs and is it safe to delete them?

Thank You,
Paul.

Sample output:

Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/1658-1993.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 16212.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/2073-2356.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 48530.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/2682-2892.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 2312.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/2186-2455.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 186145.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/1075-1471.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 7778.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/1768-2088.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 85919.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/2505-2742.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 261357.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/1839-2151.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 2808214.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/2310-2564.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 1002.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/3124-3302.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 222642.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/2320-2572.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 39664.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/1983-2277.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 892702.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/1478-1838.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 44148.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/1892-2200.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 71605.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/2703-2910.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 6927.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/2061-2344.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 54776.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/2461-2701.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 90434.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/2376-2624.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 2347.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/1350-1722.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 19414.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/2721-2925.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 45392.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/2189-2458.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 201283.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/3355-3555.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 11467.
Mailbox 6, volume 4, /home/store/0/6/msg/0/1465-1825.msg: unexpected blob. File size is 3624.


I did lookup on these wiki: Ajcody-Notes-No-Such-Blob - Zimbra :: Wiki
and these posts: Total Innodb/MySQL failure No such blob -> delete references

I'm still left in a complete void. I have no idea how to fix these problems, and I would rather not loose about 17k emails from my server.]]> Zimbra HowTo iamcypher https://community.zextras.com/forum/zimbra-howto/unexpected-blobs-in-zmblobchk/#post-271