[Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Richard Bown
Hi, I lasted used Evo about 7 years ago, on my previous laptop, when I moved the .cache directory must have been copied across. I then moved to TBird as a mailer,but decided to go back to Evo OS linux Mint 20. Now that cache , home/user/.cache/evolution is causing a problem as its not seeing the

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Andre Klapper via evolution-list
Hi, On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 15:09 +, Richard Bown wrote: > Anyone know its real location so I can clean it out and restart with > a > fresh virgin install of evo See https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/data-storage.html Cheers, andre -- Andre Klapper  |  ak...@gmx.net https://blogs.g

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Richard Bown
Thanks Andre but thats what giving me the problem, I know where the cache is located, 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 use

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Pete Biggs
> 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

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Richard Bown
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:

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Andre Klapper via evolution-list
On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 16:17 +, Richard Bown wrote: > but when I re install evo , everything that was deleted just > reappeared It would be helpful if you could elaborate and be specific about the actual problem you're facing in Evolution itself (what data? emails? which email account type? etc

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Richard Bown
version 3.36.4-0ubuntu1 Typically I keep getting warnings it can find locations like Archive/inbox2012., Big orange bar across the top of the mail listing thats when I change folder back to the inbox, I'm using IMAP Its looking for folders that are no longer in the folder tree on the IMAP server,

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 16:43 +, Richard Bown wrote: > version 3.36.4-0ubuntu1 > Typically I keep getting warnings it can find locations like > Archive/inbox2012., > Big orange bar across the top of the mail listing > thats when I change folder back to the inbox, I'm using IMAP > Its looking for

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Richard Bown
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

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 17:39 +, 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/

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Richard Bown
Looks like it may have fixed its self The last start up wanted permission to use maildie instaed of mbox format the offending directory in cache is now richard@richard-Inspiron-3580:~/.cache/evolution/mail$ ls 83febb968dd172d285752d793ebe81d81ef79a59 trash Only time will tell Richard On F

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Richard Bown
Looks like it may have fixed its self The last start up wanted permission to use maildir instead of mbox format the offending directory in cache is now richard@richard-Inspiron-3580:~/.cache/evolution/mail$ ls 83febb968dd172d285752d793ebe81d81ef79a59 trash Only time will tell Richard On F

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Richard Bown
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 +, Richard Bown wrote: > > I know Andre has pointed to all the evo data files > > Last attempt was > > sudo apt purge evolution* > > evo

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf via evolution-list
On Fri, 05 Feb 2021 16:17:39 +, Richard Bown wrote: >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 apt purge doesn't remove config files in $HOME. "Rem

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Andre Klapper via evolution-list
On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 16:43 +, Richard Bown wrote: > version 3.36.4-0ubuntu1 > Typically I keep getting warnings it can find locations like > Archive/inbox2012., Complete displayed messages (without paraphrasing) are welcome. > Big orange bar across the top of the mail listing > thats when I

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf via evolution-list
On Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:31:32 +, Richard Bown wrote: >Oh what an extremely friendly and helpful person If you close Evolution and uninstall the package evolution, Evolution related processes are not necessarily stopped from running. You might try to delete opened files. Juts for testing purpos

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Richard Bown
I'll answer in line On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 21:52 +0100, Andre Klapper via evolution-list wrote: > On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 16:43 +, Richard Bown wrote: > > version 3.36.4-0ubuntu1 > > Typically I keep getting warnings it can find locations like > > Archive/inbox2012., > > Complete displayed messag

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Richard Bown
Hi Ralf That would explain it if the data was on the evolution-data-server as that was not deleted. A log file would have been useful I normally use a wildcard with deleting with apt, so I checked what is deleted with the wildcard, and also stepped back through the CLI commands and I did use a wil

[Evolution] Would this have side effects ?

2021-02-05 Thread Anonymous Japhering via evolution-list
Evolution:  3.38.4 (flatpak gita8629ac) Mgmt is mandating that I interface with the corporate CRM software, which if you are not using a browser  for email is a BCC to a specific email address. That means you either have to  remember to add the BCC ( and remember how you saved it) , or set it in

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Pete Biggs
> That would explain it if the data was on the evolution-data-server as > that was not deleted. That's a meaningless statement. The evolution front end - what you call "evolution" gets all it's data from e-d-s. e-d-s can provide information to other (gnome) packages. It's not "on" e-d-s, it's n

Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

2021-02-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf via evolution-list
On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 21:37 +, Richard Bown wrote: > That would explain it if the data was on the evolution-data-server as > that was not deleted. No, it's just possible that you tried to delete files, while evolution-data-server still was running. ___