Re: [Evolution] Cleaning up Evo's cache

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 03:57 -0700, Veerapuram Varadhan wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 10:29 +0000, B S Srinidhi  wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a small problem with the ever-growing Evo's cache. I'll try to
> > explain myself by giving a small example.
> >
> > 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.
> I am not an IMAP guy, however, if a folder is deleted in the server, I
> guess, it should be deleted from the client as well (including any cache
> w.r.t that folder).

I can confirm, though, that the cache does *not* get deleted in
Evo 2.4.2.1

> > 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 just wanted a confirmation from the list, before I mess with the
> > cache. :)
> Take a backup and try it. :-)

I do it all the time (without taking backups first).  Better do
--force-shutdown, though.

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