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

[gene heskett]

On Monday, October 18, 2010 11:31:38 am GeraldCC did opine:

> On Monday, October 18, 2010 09:51:54 am gene heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday, October 17, 2010 07:48:26 pm GeraldCC did opine:
> > > 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.director
> > > > > > > y 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
> > 
> > Thanks.  Humm, and my corpus goes back to 2002 for some lists so I
> > would expect it to be some larger.  The question is "which .kde4
> > folder?",  I appear to have more than 1 at various levels in my home
> > directory.
> 
> Hi,
> Just where are all your .kde4 folders.
> In all my updates/upgrades i have just 1.
> Look in the .kde4/share/apps/kmail and try to determine which system has
> the latest and greatest emails.
> Gerald

I believe it is the ~/.kde tree that is surplus, I just renamed it to 
".kde-test" & we'll see who complains.  If nobody does, it gets nuked.

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