10132006 1557 GMT-6 Ok. I opened the Sent file. There were over 4 million lines in there. I deleted 600K of them. That was the last email. Do I also do this for the inbox as well as the message was bounced back to me from Yahoo?
wade > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution is using total CPU and Ram > From: Alexandru Nedelcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, October 13, 2006 12:19 pm > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > A quick solution would be for you to manually modify the file that > Evolution uses to store emails on disk. > > If you're using the local folders to store the email, the Sent file > would be located at: > ~/.evolution/mail/local/Sent > > The format of this file is very comprehensible ... just search for the > title of the email, and you delete every line from there to the next > title. > > Open it in a text editor capable of handling large files, but do make a > backup of it first, to have what to recover in case you screw up. > > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 09:56 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 10132006 1152 GMT-6 > > > > Last night I sent an email to a client with a yahoo address. The email was > > too large and I received a failure message. When I tried to delete it, my > > CPU and Memory shot straight up. I let it sit for a few hours but it didnt > > recover. This morning I had to hard boot to get it to stop. When I opened > > Evolution again, same thing happened. > > > > I got this from my system monitor: > > Process Name Status Memory Virtual Memory %CPU CPU Time > > Evolution Uninterruptiable 1.6GiB 1.6Gib 0 CPU 3:40:96 > > > > In /.evolution/mail/local/Inbox Inbox plain text file is 1.2GB in size. > > > > What can I do to recover? > > > > Wade > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Evolution-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
