kde4.5.2, kmail and very profligate use of drive space question

[GeraldCC]

On Sunday, October 17, 2010 01:36:17 am Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 10:42 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday, October 16, 2010 10:40:09 am O. Sinclair did opine:
> > > On 15/10/2010 20:56, gene heskett wrote:
> > > > Greetings all;
> > > > 
> > > > I just did a df and found my home dir has 21Gb in it and is about 70%
> > > > full, which didn't make sense as the biggest single pile of data
> > > > should be my email corpus, with Mail having a total capacity of 3.3G.
> > > > 
> > > > So I ran a "du -h gene|grep G" in order to reduce the noise and was
> > > > amazed that kmail seems to be keeping far more mail data than just in
> > > > ~/gene/Mail.
> > > > 
> > > > Example:
> > > > 1.4G    gene/.kde4/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.KMail-Import.directory
> > > > 1.8G    gene/.kde4/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox/cur
> > > > 1.8G    gene/.kde4/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/inbox
> > > > 1.8G    gene/.kde4/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/MBOX-inbox/cur
> > > > 1.8G    gene/.kde4/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/MBOX-inbox
> > > > 4.8G    gene/.kde4/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail
> > > > 4.8G    gene/.kde4/.kde/share/apps/kmail
> > > > 
> > > > Over 10Gigs of data!  And that whole tree's directories are dated
> > > > July 14, and all the files in there are dated July 11, no new stuff.
> > > >  I don't use Kontact, which seems to be referenced in a kmainwin.rc
> > > > file in that directory.  I suspect this whole 10+gigabyte tree can
> > > > be nuked.  So...
> > > > 
> > > > Does anyone else have it, and is it being maintained according to the
> > > > mod dates the files all carry?
> > > > 
> > > > If it does have current dates, are you also using Kontact?
> > > > 
> > > > This is not the mail I am reading as I understand that should all be
> > > > stored in Mail/$foldername/cur.  Or do I have a very gross
> > > > miss-understanding of how kmail works?
> > > > 
> > > > Secondarily;
> > > > 
> > > > When kmail decides to rebuild its indices about 3 or 4 times a day,
> > > > the whole machine gets laggy as one or another core of this 4 core
> > > > phenom is tied up at 99% for an hour or more per instance.
> > > 
> > > For starters I do not see anything near your listing (in size that is,
> > > otherwise it matches apart from my listing being .kde, not .kde4). And
> > > unless you have set up Kontact differently from default, yes that is
> > > the structure for keeping mail. I would certainly not nuke it until I
> > > had established where my mail actually are kept.
> > > 
> > > The second part I don't recognise at all but with the size of your
> > > maildirs then maybe?
> > > 
> > > Running Kontact on Kubuntu 10.10 with KDE 4.5.1 and KMail then 1.13.5
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Sinclair
> > 
> > I experimentally renamed one of the subdir's about 18 hours ago, and
> > there have been no complaints, so I think I'll rename the root of that
> > tree & if nothing complains, or regenerates it, about 11G's will get
> > nuked.
> 
> Huh, I don't have a .kde4 directory. Ric
Hi,
I run PCLinuxOS 2010.07 and have kde 4 .5.2 running and kmail-since 2005 and 
the .kde4 folder is 1.4GB.
Dont know if this helps???
Gerald