Re: [Evolution] Reducing size of mbox files

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 17:11, Steve Murphy wrote:
> Give me some advise--
> evo v 1.08.99...
>
> Problem 1:
>
>
> My mailboxes are growing to such size that I felt the need to 
> cut them back a bit. I went into the Blocked folder for an easy start, 
> made a backup copy of all the files in my evolution/local/Blocked
> directory, and bzip2'd the daylights out the copies. I then went into
> evolution and deleted and expunged the 2k or so messages there, hoping
> to recover some of that 30meg of data or so. No such luck, not a byte of
> difference. But, I did leave a few messages in there, so I even deleted
> those. Then, the mbox size dropped from 16 meg to 0. But the .ibex is
> still at 14meg! I guess the only remedy is to delete the folder?

you can just rm -f the mbox.ibex files. they are autogenerated.

in 1.0.x, mbox.ibex files, as an optimisation, didn't shrink themselves
when you expunged a folder because it was assumed that you more messages
would be appended to the folder that would contain the words in the
index. plus it was also pretty expensive to rewrite the mbox.ibex file.

> Problem 2:
>
> Maybe because of lack of space, but I think not: I'm trying to expunge
> deleted messages from my Inbox. When I do, while "storing", I get the
> dialog:
>
> Error while 'Expunging folder':
> Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync
> <OK>
>
> Any suggested fix?

rm -f mbox.ev-summary

it could be because you are out of disk space or it could be because you
opened the mbox file with another client, or any of a number of other
things. anyways, this should be a lot less likely in development cvs
afaik.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com