On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 20:58 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > I assume this question has been asked before, maybe it is even in some > FAQ. I am short of disk space and ~/.evolution is the main cause of > this. Trying to reduce the size of folders I delete a lot of mails, but > the largest folders cannot be expunged due to the lack of disk space. Is > there an option where I can expunge mail folders without a backup copy > is created (or similar happening, remaining disk is reduced before being > increased)?
If you're talking about mbox-style folders (you don't say) then expunging necessarily requires making a copy, though the size of the copy depends on the space occupied by the remaining emails. This is because an mbox folder is a single large file and Linux doesn't support taking space away from the middle of a file. Although copying in-place would theoretically work, that would be dangerous if interrupted and Evo doesn't do it. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
