Re: [Evolution] What are the benefits of _not_ indexing folders?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 18:19 +0100, Bram Mertens wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 18:02, Mark Gordon wrote:
> > The indexes take up disk space, and updating them takes CPU etc.
>
> Thanks, unchecking the "index body contents" did remove the mbox.index
> and mbox.index.data files and some mbox.ev-summary files.  However some
> mbox.ev-summary files aren't deleted, not even after shutting down
> evolution (even with the --force-shutdown option) and restarting.

mbox.ev-summary is not used for body-indexing and is always used (there is no way to turn them off).

> Is there any reason why some of these files aren't deleted?

see above.

>   In one
> folder the mbox.ev-summary still exist even though the mbox is 0 bytes
> large:

yea, known bug. the summary will update once mail is delivered to it tho, so it doesn't actually cause any application problems (it just wastes a little disk space until the folder gets more mail)

> m8ram linux:~> ls -lh evolution/local/check_for_spam/subfolders/spamassassin/
> total 12K
> -rw-r--r--    1 m8ram    users          59 2004-02-27 15:16 folder-metadata.xml
> -rw-------    1 m8ram    users          95 2004-03-10 18:11 local-metadata.xml
> -rw-------    1 m8ram    users           0 2004-03-10 18:06 mbox
> -rw-------    1 m8ram    users          21 2004-03-10 18:06 mbox.ev-summary
> drwx------    4 m8ram    users          96 2004-02-27 15:17 subfolders
>
> I suppose I can simply delete these?

you can delete the mbox.ev-summary file, but not the others.

Jeff