Re: [Evolution] No wonder no one else complained.

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 13:52 -0700, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> I've been wondering why I was the only evolution user that had the
> problem shown my e-d-s crash bug (can't remember the bug number, and
> bugzilla isn't responding right now).  Even when it did show the
> calendar, it would take several minutes to show the appointments.
>
> Convinced that it was related to my SMP system, and resource locking,
> I copied my calendar.ics file over to a single processor system I have
> and fired up evolution there.  While there were no crashes, it still
> took forever to show anything in the calendar.  So I decided it was
> time to take a look into my calendar.ics file itself.  Here's what I
> found.
>
> Size: 1.1MB
> Number of Events: 4486
>
> Now that was odd, I didn't remember putting that many events in the
> calendar.... so open the file in my editor and poked around.  I found
> many events that were created on May 11, for the date of Dec. 31,
> 2027, with no summary, description or anything.  Must have been
> created by some bug in CVS at that time.  Took a while and removed
> them.
>
> Now my file looks like:
> Size: 137kB
> Number of Events: 233
>
> And guess what!?  No crashes, and it's a WHOLE lot faster.  What a
> shocker!
I guess we should anyway try to not crash, since it's very common to get
broken ics files from the web. But hey, glad you don't have that crash
anymore :)

cheers