> > > > I also tried to reduce the size of a large folder by moving some > > > mail to a different folder and got the same kind of error message. > > > > If you moved it to a different real folder without expunging the > > original folder, you now have two physical copies of each "moved" > > message. > > No--I was moving it to a different Evolution mail folder.
A "move" is implemented as "copy" then "mark as deleted" - so as Patrick says all you are doing by moving the message to a different folder is creating a copy, then still leaving a version in the original folder that is merely marked as deleted - if you don't (or can't) expunge the folder, then it is still there, > > > > > There are now about 175 emails in my Trash folder that won't go away. > > > > Trash is a virtual folder. The original mails are in exactly the same > > place they were before, just marked for deletion. Because of the expunge > > problem, you didn't actually move anything, you copied it. > > > Right. My point was to indicate how many there were that aren't being > expunged. I.e., some are being expunged, but each time there seem to be > a few more there that aren't being expunged--now up to 175. You didn't say that some were being expunged and not others - are all the messages not being expunged from the same original folder? Is that folder large - i.e. is it approaching 2Gb? Also, is the folder local to the machine or is it an imap folder? And as Patrick said, remember that the Trash folder is not real - it's a virtual folder that contains pointers to all the messages in all folders on that account that are marked as being deleted. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
