On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 17:39 +0000, Richard Bown wrote: > I know Andre has pointed to all the evo data files > Last attempt was > sudo apt purge evolution* > evolution --force-shutdown > rm -rf ~/.local/share/evolution > rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/evolution > rm -rf ~/.cache/evolution > rm -rf ~/.config/evolution > dconf reset -f /org/gnome/evolution/ > gconftool not installed as my DM is cinnamon
You do understand that *YOU* create these kinds of problems by messing around in the filesystem, right? Stop doing that; use the tools in the intended fashion. > check all hidden evol files have gone > then re-istalled evo > richard@richard-Inspiron-3580:~$ ls -s .cache/evolution/mail > total 12 > 4 1527769677.8716.2@richard-Inspiron-N5030 > 4 7bb2e693532a510fb41eca211d9e5a026556fa10 > 4 83febb968dd172d285752d793ebe81d81ef79a59 > Its back !!!!!!!!!! Are you doing this while logged in? If so, don't ever. Just stop. > IF I've uninstalled evo removed What? Uninstalling Evolution has no impact on this at all; that is not how things work. > I tried asking on the Linux mint forum and just getting called a liar > as they think it doesn't happen. > This is very frustrating As a GNOME/Evolution since the days of Ximian -> you've created this mess. If you want a completely clean install then create a new user account and log into that; transfer the actual documents you want; then delete the old user account. NOTE: I haven't ever, in decades, had to do that. But I also stay out of the "." directories except in the rarest of instances. If you go into them more than once a year you are doing something wrong. > Now I suspect that as when a file is deleted the space it used > still contains the data,... Yes, absolutely that is true. That is true of every POSIX compliant file-system. A file may be deleted [aka: unlinked from the directory] but persists on disk, and is fully operational, until ZERO processes have it open. It is common even for an application to create a file, open it, delete it, and then use it until the application ends when the file then automatically reaped by the file-system. This is a feature, a great one, not a bug. Also a reason not to mess around in application directories; you don't necessarily see what that process sees [again, feature, not bug]. Also "man -S2 mmap", memory mapped files are yet another whole thing [feature, not bug]. And that's what is used by GConf/DConf. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 OpenGroupware Developer <http://www.opengroupware.us/> _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
