Serious Evolution Problem

[James Strandboge]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 14:18 -0700, wade at wadesmart.com wrote:

> How do you open a 1.2Gig file? gedit cant do it. 

First make a backup copy of 'Inbox', then do this:

$ cd ~/.evolution/mail/local
$ split -d -b 20m ./Inbox

This splits the file up into 20MB chunks, with filenames of x00, x01,
x02 ... xNN.  The largest 'NN' is the file with the latest emails in it.
Modify it, then do:

$ rm -i  ./Inbox     (again, this assumes you made a backup of 'Inbox'!)
$ cat ./x* >> ./Inbox

The last command simply puts all the files back together, in order.
When you are satisfied, get rid of all those little files with:

$ rm -i ./x*

Jamie

PS -- you mentioned your 'Sent' folder may also have problems, just
repeat the above except on the 'Sent' file instead of 'Inbox'.

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