Are you emptying the trash? -- Arthur H. Johnson II Catechist, St John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Davison MI USA President, Genesee County Linux Users Group Debian GNU/Linux Advocate
On 22 Mar 2002, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I am using Evolution 1.0.2 on a PowerPC Macintosh running sid. > > I subscribe to a lot of mailing lists, and have my mail sorted into a > couple dozen mail folders. I'm using real folders here, not the virtual > ones. > > Periodically, I delete all the mail from most of the mailing list > folders (because I can read it from the archive websites). But > evolutions disk space usage doesn't always get smaller, or not much so. > > For example, I have one mail folder that has no messages at all in it, > because I've deleted them all, yet the subdirectory for that mailbox has > over 22 megabytes of files in it! Most of the space is in a file called > "mbox.ibex". > > Is there some way I can compact these mailboxes to free unused space? > > I'm using a small drive on this machine and need to be conservative > about my file usage, but the total space consumed by evolution, even > with the majority of my mail folders just emptied, is about a quarter of > a gigabyte! > > (I am getting a bigger drive soon... but still...) > > Mike >
