Re: [Geary] Geary using up bandwidth and I don't know why

[badrihippo disroot org]

Hi Mike,
Sorry for the really late reply. I've been busy and haven't had time to debug the Geary issue till now. Been 
working off webmail meanwhile.

The "Download mail" setting is set to "2 weeks", it was "a month" earlier but I reduced it in an attempt to 
save space.

I couldn't figure out what Geary was doing, but it does seem to be related to the photo-containing email: 
that's the one email that doesn't load in Geary, and I'm still getting high bandwidth usage whenever Geary 
tries to sync.

My plan is to wait 2 weeks and see if the issue goes away (once the email drops out of the "to sync" list). 
If not, I'll try the other commands and let you know (I would do it now, but there's a bit of work I have to 
finish so don't want to use bandwidth at the moment).

Thanks,
Badri


April 5, 2019 2:32 PM, "Michael Gratton" <mike vee net> wrote:

> Hi Badri,
>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 08:36, Hippo via geary-list 
> <geary-list gnome org> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone else run into this problem before? Any idea what could be
> > going wrong?
>
> That's pretty annoying! I haven't seen Geary keep on downloading things
> when it shouldn't be, however. As a first step, have a look at the
> download settings for the account (App menu > Accounts > select the
> account > Download mail). What is it set to?
>
> Also, were these high-res photos attached as part of the the email, or
> were they links? If the former, then the total email size will be a bit
> larger (maybe around 60MB) because of way binary files like photos are
> encoded, but that still shouldn't blow through too much data. If the
> latter, maybe they are being re-downloaded every time you view the
> message?
>
> A couple of other things to try include see how much storage space
> Geary is using, by running the following in a terminal:
>
> > du -hs ~/.local/share/geary ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Geary/data/geary
>
> And running Geary from a terminal with `-d` as a command line argument,
> and see what it is doing.
>
> Let us know how that does.
>
> //Mike
>
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