Re: [Evolution] What happened to Evolution?

[darren ontrenet com]

Rob,
  Thank you so much for these tips. Greatly appreciated and I will try
them out.

Best,
Darren

> Hello Darren,
>
> I have had problems with my large Evolution Inbox and Sent mail boxes. I
> took the steps described below to improve the performance of Evolution.
> I too noticed Evolution getting slow and performing like a dog. Also
> Expunges were not completing for me. I moved my clutter from Inbox and
> Sent mail boxes to archive mail files. Since I have done this Evolution
> has performed much better but I do suffer the annoyance of daily crashes
> from which I can recover from quickly.
>
> Recipe for archiving mail boxes.
>   1) I moved old e-mails up to 01/01/2009 into an archive mail box.
>   2) I attempted to deleted the old e-mails in the active inbox.
>   3) Evolution continued to fail to expunge the deleted mail messages..
>   4) So.. I closed evolution. I used mutt to open the Inbox
>      {{{
>         mutt -f Inbox
>      }}}
>   5) I used mutt to delete the e-mail up 01/01/2009 from the active mail
> box.
>      Mutt did the deed and saved the Inbox without the deleted messages.
>   6) Evolution is now able to expunge the active Inbox as it should.
>
> Thank you,
> Rob
>
>
> On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 17:31 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 09:29 -0500, Darren Govoni wrote:
> > > Well, I think it happened when it was hung on 'Storing folder' when
> > > downloading messages for a very long time and I canceled it. The
> > > dialog hung and I brought the app down hard. Ok, generally not a good
> > > thing, but it was hung.
> >
> >      Hi,
> > hmm, that might broke your folders.db file(s) and explain all the issues
> > you are experiencing.
> >
> > > After that I couldn't open my Inbox folder. I could open others
> > > though. After almost every receive mail action, I get errors storing
> > > folder. And the folder rotates around. Not always the same. The error
> > > dialog for that claims something about a 'column name'.
> >
> > Heh, exact message would be good too, but as long as it sounds like the
> > DB corruption...
> >
> > > When downloading messages from a single POP endpoint, it goes into
> > > 'Storing folder (0%-100%)' over and over. Not sure what that is and
> > > why it does it every time.
> >
> > Please go to
> > ~/.local/share/evolution/mail
> > where are 'pop' and 'local' folders, where each contains a folders.db
> > file. Could you try to stop evolution and then move away (not delete,
> > just in case something will be worse) those two folders.db files away,
> > and then run evolution again, to see whether it'll be better, when the
> > files will be regenerated from scratch, please?
> >
> > Also, I believe no ACID may help you when you are killing hung
> > application "in the middle of its operation". :)
> >      Bye,
> >      Milan
> >
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