On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:04, Mertens Bram wrote: > What files can safely be skipped and will result in a considerable > reduction of size? > > All mail-folders contain the following files: > folder-metadata.xml > local-metadata.xml > mbox > mbox.ev-summary > mbox.ibex.index > mbox.ibex.index.data > > I suppose the .xml files are important since they appear to specify the > type of folder. (anyway they're too small too influence the size > considerably) > But do I need any other files than the mbox file?
You can safely delete the ibex files. The developeres at Ximian (don't remember who) have said that those files are just an index of the words in the messages. They are there to make searching the email messages faster. -- Doug Registered Linux User #285548 ---------------------------------------- Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) 9:50am up 13 days, 23:57, 4 users, load average: 0.13, 0.17, 0.15 ---------------------------------------- Random Thought: If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
