Re: [Evolution] Cleaning up Evo's cache

[Nigel Metheringham <nigel metheringham dev intechnology co uk>]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 15:58 +0530, B S Srinidhi wrote:
> I *had* an IMAP folder that housed close to 5000 emails. Since, that was
> taking quite some amount of space on the server and the fact that I was
> not able to read all those emails, I decided to delete the directory
> from the server. The directory does not exist anymore on the server, but
> almost all of it remains in Evo's cache.
>
> How can I delete this directory (and many others) from the cache? 
>
> Would it be enough to delete the directory from
> $HOME/.evolution/mail/imap/accountname/folders/INBOX/subfolders/ ???

I have never tried deleting individual directories from the imap tree.
However I do fairly frequently blow away everything under
$HOME/.evolution/mail/imap/ without encountering any problems (however
schedule this for a time when you are near to your imap server - doing
then when you are on low or laggy bandwidth to the server is likely to
result in frustration).

I do completely shut down evolution before lobotomising it (ie evolution
--force-shutdown).

        Nigel.

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[ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel Metheringham InTechnology co uk ]
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