Reducing .local/share/akonadi

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Wednesday, July 19, 2017 3:23:38 PM CEST solitone wrote:
> I use kmail to access three IMAP accounts, one POP3 account, and a local
> folder.
> 
> Since my .local/share/akonadi folder is pretty big (1.3 GB):
> 
> $ du -h -d 1 .local/share/akonadi
> 401M    .local/share/akonadi/db_data
> 497M    .local/share/akonadi/search_db
> 377M    .local/share/akonadi/file_db_data
> 4.0K    .local/share/akonadi/db_misc
> 1.3G    .local/share/akonadi
> 
> I was wondering whether there is a way to clear up some space.
> 
> For instance, what's the purpose of the search_db directory?

db_data is the MySQL database, which contains meta-data and some emails. 
file_db_data contains emails that are too big to be stored in the database (by 
default anything larger than 4KB). search_db is the full-text index. Except 
for akonadictl vaacuum, as Martin suggested, there's not much else to do to 
decrease the size.

You could disable "download emails for offline use" on your IMAP accounts so 
that only headers are retained locally and not the entire emails, but remember 
that your emails won't be available when you are offline if you use this 
option.

Dan

> 
> Thanks & Regards


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