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

[Pastor JW]

On Sunday, October 17, 2010 12:08:31 pm claydoh at claydoh.com 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
> 
> Could this be a setup dating back to hardy/intrepid? I think these were
> the only times there was a ~/.kde4 in Kubuntu.

I'd suspect it was Hardy which is what I had till the current LTS release and 
I have a .kde4 directory.


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