[ale] Need to edit down a 2GB file.

David Corbin dcorbin at machturtle.com
Fri Apr 15 06:43:17 EDT 2005


On Friday 15 April 2005 01:10 am, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
> I have a KMail MBox mail file that grew to over 2GB accidently and it
> apparently can't handle that. As soon as i try to dl new email the
> program exits and moving emails to another folder then compressing the
> folder is not reducing its size. Can someone recommend a common linux
> editor that will let me lop off the top of the file and save it so it'll
> be below my, apparent, 2Gb limit?
>
>     thanx & later,
>
>        Ben Scherrey
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Try split to break it into chunks.  You'd then have to edit the "boundries" to 
be sure that you have breaks between messages, but it ought to work.



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