Re: [Evolution] Need space

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 20:37 +0100, M Wedin wrote:
> I wrote a few days ago about expunging, but have problems with space and
> mismatch. Other problems caused the responses to disappear.
>
> The directories under ~/.evolution seems to be in mbox format. Can i not
> simply throw the big ones away? Especially Trash.

The mbox files under /evolution/mail are email folders containing
multiple messages each. You can delete them. Also delete the .ev-summary
and .ev-summary-meta files or Evo will complain about "folder/summary
mismatch".

Or just delete them from within Evo. Right-click on a folder and select
"Delete" from the pop-up. Much safer.

BYW you shouldn't normally have a Trash folder. Trash in Evo is a
virtual folder (i.e. a specific view of the deleted messages in your
other folders). If you have a physical Trash file it may have been
created by some other mail client but Evo won't treat it specially and
in particular won't put deleted messages in it. Do you see two different
Trash icons from the Evo GUI?

> Would I need to recreate an empty file with the same name or will it be
> recreated automatically?

Evo will recreate the summary and index files if necessary, but of
course won't create deleted folders/files it knows nothing about.

> Is it enough to close Evolution with quit, or are other services running
> in the background?

There are several other processes running. To close Evo completely,
either log out or run "evolution --force-shutdown" from the Shell,
before manipulating the .evolution directory manually.

poc