Re: [Evolution] Identifying and clearing redundant data/files

[Steve T <stevetucknott yahoo co uk>]

Patrick,
Yes, I clear the Trash every day.

I think I can see what the problem is and where the space is being taken up.
I have my pop3 set so that the messages are left on the server. Periodically, I go to the pop3 server(s) and manually delete the messages that i know I have read and have in Evolution (I tend to do this so I always have my mail on an available web based server, in case I'm ever out without my laptop).

Would I be right in assuming that Evolution then cache's the messages from the various servers - so it knows what has already been retrieved? If that is the case then that would seem to leave the messages in cache, even after I delete them from the server and from Evolution itself.

My flow is:

• Get mail from Server
• Cache mail to say retrieved
• Post to VFolders inside Evolution
• At some point I delete the mail from the Server
• At some other point I delete the mail from Evolution (and clear trash!)
• But does this then leave a copy in cache?

If that is the case, how can I go about clearing 'dead' messages from cache? My first thoughts were to get all the messages from the servers and delete  them from the Servers - then delete all the cache entries from evolution. Is that sensible and will that cause me more issues?

I did try yesterday to set the preferences in evolution to delete the messages on the server after 14 days - but that caused Evolution to crash (and wouldn't restart) with a calendar error (why an error on the calendar I don't know!) - so as Evolution loaded and before it crashed, I changed the preferences back again!



On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 08:14 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 08:00 +0100, Steve T wrote:
> > I am running Evolution 2.8.3  under FC6.
> > 
> > >From the size of the Inbox (circa 600mb) and sent (circa 300mb), I
> > have about 1gb of mail - I do use the calendaring and contacts but not
> > to any large degree. The problem I have is that the .evolution folder
> > is taking up about 2.5GB - is there a way of identifying and clearing
> > 'redundant' data/files from this area to reclaim space - or would you
> > expect that size based on the inbox/sent sizes?    
>
> Obvious question: have you tried File->Empty Trash? Remember that
> deleted messages are not really deleted until you do this (or
> Folder->Expunge).
>
> poc