[NBLUG/talk] Evolution won't start! Perhaps the inbox got toobig?

[Lincoln Peters]

I just did another Google search (I can't figure out why I didn't just 
search for "mbox.ibex.index.data" in the first place), and it appears that 
the file is a word-index, used so that if I search for messages that contain 
specific words, the search won't take forever.  Maybe Evolution started 
doing this when I set up a filter that automatically marked for deletion any 
message containing the word "Nigeria" (yes, that stupid scam is *still* 
going around!).

I moved the file to a different directory, and Evolution regenerated it.  
Fortuantely, this time the file was only 2.3 megabytes.




Lincoln




>From: error <error at sonic.net>
>Reply-To: talk at nblug.org
>To: talk at nblug.org
>Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Evolution won't start!  Perhaps the inbox got 
>toobig?
>Date: 30 Sep 2003 15:08:52 +0200
>
>On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 05:35, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> > I have found that Ximian Evolution will no longer start up on my 
>computer
> > (running RedHat 9).  I've tried every trick I know (kill all processed
> > associated with evolution, delete summary and index files), to no avail.
> > The only thing I can see that could be hanging it up is that somehow, 
>the
> > local/Inbox/mbox.ibex.index.data file has ballooned up to 2 gigabytes!
> >
> > Having done some Google research, it seems that this problem (or one 
>that
> > looks very similar) affects almost any application running on a 32-bit
> > architecture (which seems to cover every modern PC except the PowerMac 
>G5).
> > However, I can't seem to make sense out of most of it.  Anyone here know
> > anything about it?
>
>
>I have this problem with Evolution sometimes.
>
>Why do you need mbox.ibex.index.data ? What is this file used for?
>
>Mine is never that large even when I have 8000 messages in one folder,
>it's only 4.3 megs.
>
>I find that if evolution can't start up, it's time to find out which
>directory is clogged up, move it until evolution starts, then quit
>evolution, move it back, run strace evoltion and see if it's actually
>hanging out just taking forever.
>
>Just suggestions.
>
>--
>error <error at sonic.net>
>
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