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

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 19:46 -0500, Robert Seward wrote:
> 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.

You might be able to add temporary swap space to get round this, though
I would expect it to be slow.

> 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?

Failing the above, perhaps splitting the Inbox into manageable
subfolders would help. Could be tricky though, given the problem with
expunging. You might need to copy the whole thing to a set of folders,
then manually delete the Inbox file from the filesystem (after shutting
down Evo of course) and hope Evo will recreate it when it starts up.
Ugly.

In any case, this looks to me like a bug. It's not reasonable for Evo to
fail to index (or expunge) on a 4GB machine. My desktop has only 2GB and
I've never seen this (my local Inbox is currently 130MB). You should
probably report it to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.

poc