On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 15:19 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 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.
Yes, the mail is stored in mbox format. I have some follow-up questions: 1) Is it possible to just move one large file to somewhere else, expunging other folders and move it back? 2) In .evolution/cache/ I currently have 100MB, mainly contained in the html subdirectory. Is there a way to clear this cache from evolution. Have not found such option yet. What about just removing the files under .../cache/html/??/ and .../cache/tmp? 3) Is it possible to specify another tmp directory than under .evolution? 4) Can I edit the mbox folders manually, e.g. in emacs. I've done so successfully before but it seems to be somewhat risky. 5) Where can I find a description of the set of files for each folder, e.g. Inbox, Inbox.cmeta, Inbox.ev-summary, Inbox.ev-summary-meta, Inbox.ibex.index, Inbox.ibex.index.data Why so many sub-files in addition to the main one Inbox? Thanks, Svante > poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
