Re: [Evolution] Woah! Maybe I am missing something here

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 08:34, Steve wrote:
> To all:
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> I deleted all my emails out of evolution (after doing a backup), which
> were swelling my evolution directory to about 90 megs.
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> After deleting the emails, I find I still have a pile of "mbox.ibex"
> files that make up most of the 80 megs that is still in here. I don't
> dare delete them, as it seems they contain filter settings, and so on.

It's safe to delete these. They are just body indexes (they keep a
record of which messages contain which words so that 'body contains'
searches are really fast).

Jeff

> How in the world do you compact or shrink these monsters...?
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> -- Steve
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