Oh what an extremely friendly and helpful person 10|-1 Richard
On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 13:26 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
