13 Dec
2019
13 Dec
'19
1:05 p.m.
On Friday 13 December 2019 11:52:09 Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
So I picked the largest cur dirs, and using mc have moved about 2 years
worth of each to an outside of the ~/Mail view of kmail. And nuked
those index files, so it has to rebuild them. Its not done with that
yet, but we'll see. Damn this is getting old.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
The complete corpus of my Kmail (including nearly 20 years of archives like
yourself) is only about 4.5 gb, and my machine is built out of spare parts,
most of which are older than Utnapishtim's Flood. And while my machine is a
little slow sometimes, I never experience anything like you keep describing.
I hope to get myself an SSD to install as my home directory, which ought to
speed things up for me, at least.
It is a problem of diminishing returns: you want to have those archives
available somewhere, to find information that you saved, but now the size of
those archives is making Kmail unusable. So I would say, keep pruning until
it stops misbehaving. You will still have those old emails available, so long
as they are removed to where Kmail won't look. They can always be retrieved
if you really need them.
Bill