GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 554552
[backup-restore] No insufficient disk space warning when backup
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:12:57 UTC
When have lots of mails and want to Back up or empty the trash, evolution need lot of disk space. Evolution should check this before backup or empty the trash, and display an appropiate messasge.
Note that bug 382403 and bug 527729 are similar.
actually, it depends on the provider, for example an mbox store requires twice disk space, one for the mbox file itself, the second for the copy, which is without deleted messages (for the expunge action). The maildir format doesn't suffer of this, as all messages are separate files. I agree with backup, but it's hard to distinguish the pack ratio. I thought the expunge claims something when got out of disk space, isn't it?
Don't remember exactly, but I think that display a small message at the bottom of the main window, not in an independent window. What about an alert like "back up requires additional disk space" The problem I have was that the index was corrupted after failed to backup, have to do: rm ~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.ev-summary rm ~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.ev-summary-meta and Evolution repair itself.
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