Re: [Evolution] Reducing size of mbox files

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 08:50, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 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.

Actually it was just impossible the way the files are used.

> > 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.

It could also happen if you're out of disk.