Re: [Evolution] I am unable to Expunge my inbox.

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 18:22 -0500, Robert Seward wrote:
> Hello Patrick,
>
> The Inbox file is local.
>
> My /tmp directory is on my root partition. I have 20 GB free on root.
>
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/md1               29G  8.1G   20G  30% /
>
> .. so things should be good there.
>
> I had some problems upgrading from Evolution 2.22 -> 2.24 (FC9 -> FC10).
> Every time Evolution tried to build the sqlite summary file it died
> trying to allocate 8GB of memory! 
>
> So maybe my Inbox file has grown too large? Is a 487MB mail file too
> large for Evolution? 

Certainly not. Some people have gigabytes in their inboxes :-)

> To work around the conversion problem I followed
> some advice I found on the Ubuntu forums. The Ubuntu post advised that
> to avoid the mandatory conversion of the summary files, I should mislead
> Evolution to believe that 2.24 was already active on my account by
> changing some gnome registry keys. 
>
> I did this and was able to start Evolution, it can read my mail file,
> etc. However I can't expunge my Inbox file.

That sounds like it could be the culprit. Fooling Evo into not
reindexing on conversion sounds like a really bad idea, given that the
index system has completely changed with 2.24. In your place I would try
to back out those changes and start again. At least revert the registry
stuff (with gnome-conf turned off of course). You did take a backup
before trying this didn't you?

poc