On Sun, 2020-03-22 at 22:34 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2020-03-22 at 20:51 +0000, John Murrell wrote: > On Sun, 2020-03-22 at 19:49 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Mbox is for mail. It has nothing to do with calendars. Neither does the > contacts.db file. A date of 1/1/9999 looks very much like an > uninitialized field. > > I suggest you save your existing *.ics file(s) somewhere as a backup, > delete or rename the calendar from within Evolution, then create an > entirely new calendar (also in Evolution), and import the backup .ics > file(s). That should at least start things off in a consistent state. > > poc > > > I have backed up my calendar.ics file - looking at it with notepad it looks > ok no corruption and the edits I made to appointments today are all there. > > I can't delete my calendar file as the command is greyed out. The > delete contacts command is also greyed out. Not sure why. > > You can always delete it from outside Evolution. Before doing so, stop > Evo completely, including all associated processes (quit Evo and run > 'pkill evolution'). Then restart, create a new calendar and import the > old file. > > NB: I'm just improvising here as personally I use online calendars > rather than local ones. Perhaps other list members have a better idea. > > poc > I have stumbled on a cure In Evolution Accounts - Address Book Properties On this Computer - Personal there is a tickbox Use in Birthdays & Anniversaries calendar. If I untick this I can now create new entries in the Calendar and the error message above no longer appears. The birthdays which are in the Contacts book still appear though I have not tested if any new entries appear.
Does this give any clue as to what the problem is ? Regards John
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