Re: [Evolution] "Storing Folder" stalling Evolution

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 01:09 -0400, jim wrote:
> > Try vacuuming the database. Stop Evo completely (--force-shutdown)
> and
> > run:
> >
> > cd ~/.evolution/mail/
> > for i in `find . -name folders.db`
> >         do
> >         echo "Rebuilding Table $i"
> >         sqlite3 $i "vacuum;"
> > done
> >
> > One more thought, just in case: is your home directory on an NFS
> server?
> > If nothing else works, at least report it to Bugzilla.
>
> Thanks Patrick. I tried vacuuming the database as you suggested. That
> didn't seem to work on its own. I then deleted all these files again:
> .cmeta
> .ibex.index
> .ibex.index.data
> .ev-summary
>
> and as of now I am not getting the storing folder messages and the
> long
> delays associated with them. I'll keep an eye on it and see how long
> this works. Thanks again for all your help. Do you happen to know
> where
> I could find an explanation as to what the above files and the
> folder.db files do?

Clearly they are index files and caches of various sorts, because Evo
will just rebuild them when deleted. For details you'd probably have to
look at the source code.

poc