Re: Purging old locally-cached messages

[James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com>]

At Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:04:02 +0200,
Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:51:48 +0800
> James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I would like to remove the locally-cached copies of messages that
> > are older than, say, six months.
> 
> elmo-cache-expire-by-age ?

This seems not to have had any effect. I did M-x elmo-cache-expire-by-age and entered 180 for the number of days, but the cache directory still contains a lot of files older than that (e.g., December 10, 2010).

I also verified that elmo-cache-directory is the same location where I'm checking for old files.

Maybe a bug in that function?

It looks like the function isn't doing anything more than iterating through the directory structure and deleting, which is what find ... | xargs ... would do, so I guess I will go that way.

Thanks,
James


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