Re: [Evolution] High disk usage

[Pelle Windestam <pelle windestam se>]

On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 09:59 -0500, Greg Oliver via evolution-list wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 5:46 AM Pelle Windestam via evolution-list
> <evolution-list gnome org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 11:36 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 10:55 +0200, Pelle Windestam via evolution-list
> > > wrote:
> > > > when I by accident looked at my "System Monitor" tool I noticed that
> > > > it was writing huge amounts of data to my disk.
> > >
> > >         Hi,
> > > does it report what file it is? Is the file itself such large, or so
> > > much data is written during the say, keeping the file relatively small?
> > > Being it about mail file, do you receive many mails each day?
> > >         Bye,
> > >         Milan
> >
> > No, unfortunately not. I shows open files, but not how much that it has
> > written
> > to each specific one. 
> >
> > I do not receive many mails at all, maybe 20 per day or so. Mostly without
> > attachments, and in any case the attachments would be small.
> >
> > //Pelle
>
>
> Without knowing where your evolution files reside - do not use Manjaro, you
> can go into the directories and run this command.  Largest files will be at
> the bottom:
>
> find . -type f -exec du -b {} \; | sort -n
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It looks like it stores data in ~/.cache/evolution (lots of mails here it
seems) and also in ~/.local/share/evolution. Nothing big under
~/.local/share/evolution, about 18 files and the largest one is about 73 kB.

~/.cache/evolution is another story, lots of big files here. I do have quite a
lot of archived mails in my private account, probably several GB, but those
were downloaded to my computer a long time ago. Could the fact that there are
lots of e-mails there be causing this? 

//Pelle