Re: [Evolution] Error Expunging Folders

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 09:51 -0500, Rick Friedman wrote:
> While trying to expunge my "Spam_Junk" folder, I get the following error
> message:
>
> Error while Expunging folder.
> Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync
>
> While trying to empty my Trash folder, I get the following error
> message:
>
> Error while Expunging folder.
> Error storing `~/.evolution/mail/local/Spam_Junk (mbox)':
> Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync
>
> Anyone have any ideas about how to solve this? Any help is greatly
> appreciated.

Are you sure you're not running out of space? An mbox is a potentially
huge file with an entire folder in it, and expunging in this case means
selectively copying it to another file before removing it, i.e. the
space overhead can greatly increase during the process.

Just a thought ...

poc