On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 13:04 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 10:56 -0400, Carpet Nailz wrote: > > I removed the two files from .evolution > > ( "~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.ev-summary" and > > "~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.ibex.index"). Evolution restarted almost > > immediately (that is, there didn't seem to be any lag due to recreating > > indexes). > > > > After the "hard" shutdown and restart, moving mail to different folders > > seems to be working ok. > > > > But the same problem continues with expunging deleted mail. It doesn't > > seem to make any difference whether I use File->Empty Trash of Folder > > ->Expunge. I keep getting the same "Error while expunging folder" > > message. > > [Please don't top-post on this list] > > The only difference between the two methods is that File->Empty Trash > works on the entire account and Folder->Expunge only on the current > folder. Note that if you have several accounts you need to Empty Trash > on each of them separately. > > > The entire .Evolution folder is only 890MB with the Mail folder being > > 860MB. > > So it's not a file size limitation issue. > > > /tmp is only 53 MB. (In any case, that should empty out each time I > > reboot, shouldn't it?) > > That depends on your OS. > > > Where would I see whether there's a max size set > > for the /tmp file? > > There is no /tmp file. On some systems /tmp occupies its own filesystem > (which in some cases is actually a RAM disk) which would limit the size. > Otherwise there's no express limit on the size of /tmp other than the > amount of free space on the filesystem. > > > The file system holding /home (/dev/sda3) is only 23% full. > > The important datum is how much actual space is free, i.e. 23% of how > much, and 23MB in /tmp out of how much? The way to find out is: > > df -h /tmp /home > > However if we assume that you do in fact have enough space, the most > likely explanation is a corrupt database. Once again, be sure to > completely shut down Evo before doing this: > > rm ~/.evolution/mail/local/folders.db > > Note that this will remove some metadata such as labels on messages. > > You might also look at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550414 > which is referenced on the FAQ page I mentioned earlier. According to > the last few comments there (it's a very long thread dating back several > years) the problem seems to have been fixed in the latest version of > Evo. Since you didn't mention what version you have, your best solution > might simply be to update. > > As a last resort, there could be an actual corruption in one of the mbox > files. That's messier to deal with, but you might take a look at the > formail command (part of the procmail package) which can rewrite mboxes > to fix some problems of this sort. > > poc removing ~/.evolution/mail/local/folders.db seems to have done it. Thanks.
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