[Evolution-users] Stuck opening folder

[Tim McConnell]

Hi Van, 
I had this issue once, it turned out to be an issue with WebKit, not
Evolution. I'm on Debian Trixie with Evolution 3.56.2-2 My folders do
not hang and hasn't since Debian 11 (I forgot the codename, Jessie
maybe?) If you run Evolution in Gnome De Bugger (GDB) does it give any
stack traces, etc? 
Someone besides me can tell you how to do that, I use it just often
enough to forget how to do it and forget to save the notes, because I
think to myself I wont need this anymore 🙄️
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Tim McConnell <tmcconnell168 at gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 15:16 -0700, Van Snyder via evolution-users
wrote:
> I just killed Evolution because it was stuck opening three folders
> under ~/mail/save/… — my MH format local archive. "top" reported it
> was using 300% of my CPU time. I assume that means three whole cores
> on my old eight-core Intel i7.
> 
> 1. How does Evolution decide which random folder to open in my MH
> archive whenever I start it?
> 
> 2. Why does it choose a different one each time?
> 
> 3. How can I stop if from doing that?
> 
> 4. I click the little circle with two red dots in the bottom pane and
> it adds (cancelling) after the folder name, but it never finishes
> cancelling. How do I cancel it, short of killing Evolution,
> restarting it, and watching it get stuck opening another random
> folder?
> 
> I'm using Evolution 3.46.4-2 on Debian 12, but I had the same problem
> using whatever version was shipped with Debian 13 (3.56.1-1, IIRC). I
> can't check that now because I sent the MB back to MSI and I don't
> have Debian 13 on my backup machine. I had cloned my home directory
> onto that machine's NVME drive, but my backup doesn't have an NVME
> slot. I have Debian 13 on a laptop where I use Evolution 3.56.1-1,
> but it doesn't have that problem, so I assume the problem is caused
> by a file in ~/.somewhere/*
> 
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