Hi Pete it really is driving me nuts the offending file is the one with 5050 in the name
richard@richard-Inspiron-3580:~/.cache/evolution/mail$ ls -ls total 12 4 drwx------ 3 richard richard 4096 Feb 5 08:54 0656774d545ea2bb57c9be746823f7d3f567198c 4 drwx------ 2 richard richard 4096 Feb 5 15:35 1527769677.8716.2@richard-Inspiron-N5030 4 drwxrwxrwx 3 richard richard 4096 Feb 5 15:57 7bb2e693532a510fb41eca211d9e5a026556fa10 I can shut down evo , delete that directory, and as soon as evo is restarted it reappears. I have tried deleting the account, from within evo and running sudo apt purge evolution that should remove evo and all its config files, then deleted .cache/evolution but when I re install evo , everything that was deleted just reappeared Now I suspect that as when a file is deleted the space it used still contains the data, until overwritten some mechanism may be recovering what was deleted. there is an ultimate way way of doing it which I dont want to have to get to richard@richard-Inspiron-3580:~/.cache/evolution/mail$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /dev tmpfs 784M 1.7M 782M 1% /run /dev/nvme0n1p4 58G 13G 43G 22% / tmpfs 3.9G 153M 3.7G 4% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/nvme0n1p2 165G 112G 45G 72% /home /dev/nvme0n1p1 52M 13M 39M 26% /boot/efi tmpfs 784M 60K 784M 1% /run/user/1000 /dev/nvme0n1p3 11G 8.8G 1.4G 87% /media/richard/9e1ade3b-5307- 4570-b47c-5cc4042c6589 My home dir is on a separate partition, last resort would be to back up all the non-hidden files boot up on the last listed partition which is a very earl version of LM17.3 for apps that still use KDE3 run gparted and format /dev/nvme0n1p2 , the /home directory But that is last resort., which I dont want to have to do. There must be a simple way of flushing the cache so it can start as a virgin install or getting rid of that mail directory. apologies for using html, the reason was line wrapping richard On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 15:49 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > BUT that data is backed up somewhere else, you can deleted the > > cache, > > but as soon as evo is restarted exactly the same files are > > restored to > > user/.cache/evolution > > There is a backup copy of the cache that evo uses to restore the > > cache > > should it be deleted. > > No, because it's not a cache then. The cache just contains local > copies of data downloaded from the server (plus a few oddities). > > > I need to delete that back up so the cache can be flushed. > > There is nothing in the help file anywhere , thats why I'm asking > > There are corrupted files in the cache and they need to be removed > > That cache needs to flushed > > Deleting .cache/evolution is *the* way to do it - but make sure all > evolution components are not running before you do it. > > Certainly evolution will create the cache when it starts, but that's > not copied from anywhere. What I suspect you are seeing is > information > that isn't stored in the cache. Have you tried simply deleting the > account in evolution and re-creating it? If it's 7 years since > you've > used the account data, then it definitely needs to be deleted and > reconfigured - removing the cache will not do that. > > P. > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
_______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
