Serious Evolution Problem

[wade at wadesmart.com]

10132006 2122 GMT-6

I have put the file back together but I have run into some troubles. 
Storing Folder gets to 27% and then crashes. 

I removed the same email from both sent and inbox. 

wade

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: Serious Evolution Problem
> From: James Strandboge <jamie at strandboge.com>
> Date: Fri, October 13, 2006 5:04 pm
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
> 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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