Re: [Evolution] .IBEX file? UPDATE

[Michael Leone <turgon mike-leone com>]

On 16 Jun 2001 11:53:50 -0400, Michael Leone wrote:

> Why would the index be close to twice as large as the file it's
> indexing? I deleted/expunged many mails from this folder, and the mbox
> size went from 3.3M down to the 2.59M you see above. Yet the .ibex file
> size stayed the same, at 4M. Wouldn't it have also gone down, since
> there was now over 100 emails less to index?

Ok. So after deleting even more email (I'm now down to a mbox size of
2M, from it's original size of 3.3M), I closed Evo, and deleted the
.ibex file.

This .ibex file was 4.4M in size; it never changed size, to reflect the
now smaller size of the mbox.

So, then I restarted Evo, and - as expected - it recreated the .ibex
file.

[turgon minas-aran LRP]$ ls -la
total 2782
drwxr-xr-x    2 turgon   turgon        146 Jun 16 13:33 ./
drwxr-xr-x   41 turgon   turgon       1035 Jun 10 13:26 ../
-rwxr-xr-x    1 turgon   turgon         63 Jan 19 23:23
folder-metadata.xml*
-rw-------    1 turgon   turgon    2001376 Jun 16 13:30 mbox
-rwxr-xr-x    1 turgon   turgon     124308 Jun 16 13:33 mbox.ev-summary*
-rw-------    1 turgon   turgon     711936 Jun 16 13:33 mbox.ibex

Note that the size is now only 17% of it's previous size (711,936 v
4,006,400). And, as a side effect, that I've gained 3M disk space. :-)

A suggestion: perhaps a button, or menu item, to "Rebuild index". Looks
like (for now), the .ibex isn't being updated to reflect downward sizing
of mbox files (altho I will admit that this is the only folder I've
tried this experiment on, as of this moment). Manually rebuilding the
index would help to clear out the cruft (a word I've only heard used in
conjunction with Linux, BTW :-).

Perhaps it wouldn't hurt, every now and again, to close Evo, and rm all
the .ibex files, so they could periodically be rebuilt. I'd hate to put
a command like that in a cron script, since Evo might be open and
running when the .ibex files got removed; and I presume that could cause
havoc.