Re: [Evolution] won't expunge/empty trash

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> > > I also tried to reduce the size of a large folder by moving some
> > > mail to a different folder and got the same kind of error message.
> >
> > If you moved it to a different real folder without expunging the
> > original folder, you now have two physical copies of each "moved"
> > message.
>
> No--I was moving it to a different Evolution mail folder.

A "move" is implemented as "copy" then "mark as deleted" - so as Patrick
says all you are doing by moving the message to a different folder is
creating a copy, then still leaving a version in the original folder
that is merely marked as deleted - if you don't (or can't) expunge the
folder, then it is still there,

> > > There are now about 175 emails in my Trash folder that won't go away.
> >
> > Trash is a virtual folder. The original mails are in exactly the same
> > place they were before, just marked for deletion. Because of the expunge
> > problem, you didn't actually move anything, you copied it.
> Right. My point was to indicate how many there were that aren't being
> expunged. I.e., some are being expunged, but each time there seem to be
> a few more there that aren't being expunged--now up to 175.

You didn't say that some were being expunged and not others - are all
the messages not being expunged from the same original folder?  Is that
folder large - i.e. is it approaching 2Gb?

Also, is the folder local to the machine or is it an imap folder?

And as Patrick said, remember that the Trash folder is not real - it's a
virtual folder that contains pointers to all the messages in all folders
on that account that are marked as being deleted.

P.