Mike,
I have this problem also.
I found that Evolution does not compact the files it uses for storage.
I resorted to deleting some of the files and allowing Evolution to
re-create them.
I have attached a script that does this...
Randy
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 23:33, 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
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#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# NB: Need to check to see if evolution is running, if it is
# then we should not run this script
#
print "Looking for mbox.ibex files...\n";
@core = `find . -type f -name mbox.ibex 2>/dev/null`;
chop (@core);
$num = @core;
if (@core)
{
if ( $num == 1 )
{
print "Found $num mbox.ibex file...removing...\n";
}
else
{
print "Found $num mbox.ibex files...removing...\n";
}
foreach $file (@core)
{
# if we have write (-w) permission, we can delete it
if (-w $file)
{
system( "rm", "-rf", $file );
print Deleted $file.\n;
}
else
{
print "You do not have permission to delete $file!\n";
}
}
}
else
{
print "No mbox.ibex files found!\n";
}
print "Looking for mbox.ev-summary...\n";
@core = `find . -type f -name mbox.ev-summary 2>/dev/null`;
chop (@core);
$num = @core;
if (@core)
{
if ( $num == 1 )
{
print "Found $num mbox.ev-summary file...removing...\n";
}
else
{
print "Found $num mbox.ev-summary files...removing...\n";
}
foreach $file (@core)
{
# if we have write (-w) permission, we can delete it
if (-w $file)
{
system( "rm", "-rf", $file );
print Deleted $file.\n;
}
else
{
print "You do not have permission to delete $file!\n";
}
}
}
else
{
print "No mbox.ev-summary files found!\n";
}
exit(0);
