Amount of file creations

[pbiering]

user question:

May I ask - is it understood why Radicale creates more files than contacts?
First I imported my calendar which has 100 events or so into Radicale and about 300 files were created. Then I importer my contacts list which has about 3800 contacts, and about 12000 files were create. In both cases roughly 3:1 files.
In principle this shouldn't matter, but since the experience has been so clunky so far, I'm trying to understand if creating many files is a expected of a symptom of something that might lead me to understand why my experience has been clunky.

[pbiering]

Can you share more details?

General: upload of one item should result normally in 2 files

• item itself in collection "data" folder
• structured item in collection "cache" folder

See also:
https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/wiki/Collection-Storage

Special cases in collection upload:

• calendar item contains more components, then it will split -> should be visible in log level debug where one PUT request causes more than one Prepare item with UID log entries.

Radicale/radicale/app/put.py

Line 86 in a1f32ab

for _, components in vobject_components_by_uid:

• handled similar for address book items, but not logged (so far):

Radicale/radicale/app/put.py

Line 104 in a1f32ab

for vobject_item in vobject_items:

You should be able to check this by yourself running e.g.

grep ^UID: *.ics | sort | uniq | wc -l on original collection and the collection "data" folder after upload. In case not any UID is rejected the amount should be equal.

[thirtysixbananas]

Hm. I was running find . | wc -l and didn't realize that this includes a huge number of cache files.

When I run your comment, the number that it produces for one folder exactly equals that of the number of contacts within that folder.

Thank you.