On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 20:04 +0200, Pelle Windestam via evolution-list
wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 09:59 -0500, Greg Oliver via evolution-list
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 5:46 AM Pelle Windestam via evolution-list
> > <evolution-list@gnome.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 11:36 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 10:55 +0200, Pelle Windestam via
> > > > evolution-list
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > when I by accident looked at my "System Monitor" tool I
> > > > > noticed that
> > > > > it was writing huge amounts of data to my disk.
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > does it report what file it is? Is the file itself such large,
> > > > or so
> > > > much data is written during the say, keeping the file
> > > > relatively small?
> > > > Being it about mail file, do you receive many mails each day?
> > > > Bye,
> > > > Milan
> > > >
> > >
> > > No, unfortunately not. I shows open files, but not how much that
> > > it has
> > > written
> > > to each specific one.
> > >
> > > I do not receive many mails at all, maybe 20 per day or so.
> > > Mostly without
> > > attachments, and in any case the attachments would be small.
> > >
> > > //Pelle
> > >
> >
> >
> > Without knowing where your evolution files reside - do not use
> > Manjaro, you
> > can go into the directories and run this command. Largest files
> > will be at
> > the bottom:
> >
> > find . -type f -exec du -b {} \; | sort -n
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> It looks like it stores data in ~/.cache/evolution (lots of mails
> here it
> seems) and also in ~/.local/share/evolution. Nothing big under
> ~/.local/share/evolution, about 18 files and the largest one is about
> 73 kB.
>
> ~/.cache/evolution is another story, lots of big files here. I do
> have quite a
> lot of archived mails in my private account, probably several GB, but
> those
> were downloaded to my computer a long time ago. Could the fact that
> there are
> lots of e-mails there be causing this?
I don't see why, but in any case you could just remove everything under
~/.cache/evolution and see if the problem persists.
poc
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