Re: [Evolution] Evolution painfully slow

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 10:10 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> Evolution (evolution-2.26.3-1.fc11.x86_64 running under Fedora-11) is
> painfully slow performing some actions.  In particular, I've been
> clearing out the the 1579 deleted messages in my Junk folder for the
> past hour.  The status (bottom) line has been displaying:
>       Updating Search Folders for 'On This Computer:/phred' (...)
> during this whole time.  All data is local to my computer; no external
> servers, databases, etc.
>
> Has anyone else seen this or a similar problem?  Any ideas what's going
> on?

Have you tried vacuuming the database?

        #!/bin/sh
        
        cd ~/.evolution/mail/
        for i in `find . -name folders.db`
                do
                echo "Rebuilding Table $i"
                sqlite3 $i "vacuum;"
        done

poc

PS Cross-posting to multiple lists is generally frowned on, which is why
I'm only replying here.