On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 19:02, James Gregory wrote: > But, the terrible tyranny of finite diskspace has once again made its > presence known. For some reason, Evolution is storing more information > about my mail than my mboxs are. Look: > > [james@stravinsky james]$ du -ms Mail/ evolution/ > 346 Mail > 360 evolution > > Now, as I understand it, evolution will store headers, and it will > probably store some email for reading offline (how does this work, > btw?), but I'm a little concerned by the fact that it's storing *that* > much stuff. > > How do I get it to store less stuff?
I don't have the answer, but I'd like to add it gets much worse. I've been using Evolution for maybe 6 months now, and in that time my evolution directory has steadily expanded to the current size of over 14MB. True, I keep some messages, but the real culprits are the mbox.ibex files, one of each exists for every evolution folder. For example. right now my SLUG folder holds 6 messages, resulting in mbox file the size of 157KB. But the corresponding mbox.ibex file is 2 megabytes! No amount of purging and emptying of trash makes those .ibex files any smaller - the only way is up! I'm guessing they must hold some sort of indexing info, and I expected there would be some way of reindexing Evolution's database and resetting them once in a while, but I haven't found it so far... Evolution FAQ and help files have nothing to say on this topic. This is Evolution 1.0.8, btw --------------------------------------------------------------------- "In the struggle of Good against Evil, it's always the people who get killed." -- Eduardo Galeano -- 2:20pm up 49 days, 4:44, 5 users, load average: 2.21, 2.19, 2.10-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
