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

[Robert Seward <rseward bluestone-consulting com>]

Believe me, I tried to make the conversion process work. 

I tried it three times. Each time the conversion failed saying it failed
to allocate 8 GB of memory. My lowly 4 GB laptop was not adequate for
this conversion process.

Of course I was able to bring Evolution to a workable state by passing
the conversion process. By the way I need Evolution to do my day to day
work. So not having Evolution available for a long period of time is NOT
an option.

I am open to suggestions on how to make my Inbox successfully convert
its summary to the new sqlite format. Any ideas? Anyone?

Thanks,
Rob


On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 19:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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
>
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