Re: [Evolution] Removing dupes

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Well since the folders will be concatenated, you could remove the first half of the folder using a text editor or dd or cut or something.

(or the last half, it doesn't really matter).

the problem is a lot simpler than if they were all jumbled up.

Did you file a crash report for when it crashed?

On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 13:33 -0500, Dan Jones wrote:
> I recently went from Evolution 1.4 to 2.0.  Evolution 2 informed me that
> the location where messages were stored was different and started
> importing all of my old messages.  When it finished, it popped up a box
> asking me whether it should delete or save the old messages.  I told it
> to delete them and Evolution crashed.
>
> I restarted it and it again informed me that the location was different
> and started to import the messages.  Then it complained that the
> directory it was trying to create already existed.  I told it to
> overwrite the directory and it continued.  I got the same error several
> more times.
>
> This time, Evolution finished the import without crashing.  The problem
> is that both imports worked - I now have two copies of every message in
> my archives, which is close to 100MB of messages (now taking up almost
> 200MB.)  Is there any way or any tool to go through and weed out the
> duplicate messages?
>
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