Re: [Evolution] backing up ~/evolution

[Ski Dawg <skidawg plbb net>]

On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:04, Mertens Bram wrote:
> What files can safely be skipped and will result in a considerable
> reduction of size?
>
> All mail-folders contain the following files:
> folder-metadata.xml
> local-metadata.xml
> mbox
> mbox.ev-summary
> mbox.ibex.index
> mbox.ibex.index.data
>
> I suppose the .xml files are important since they appear to specify the
> type of folder. (anyway they're too small too influence the size
> considerably)
> But do I need any other files than the mbox file?

You can safely delete the ibex files. The developeres at Ximian (don't
remember who) have said that those files are just an index of the words
in the messages. They are there to make searching the email messages
faster.

--
Doug

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