Here is a workaround to get rid of the unwanted folders in Evolution. Use care. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have mail folders in Evolution that you want to delete yo can do so bt following these steps.
Note: If you don't have Krusader installed you can do so but you can also use something like Thunar. Either way you need to enable "Show Hidden Files" from the View drop down) Step 1: in Evolution, create a new unique folder: right-click on "On this computer" and then "New Folder". Give it a certain unique name, such as "2delete". Step 2: move all of the email folders that you want to delete to this new folder. I renamed them aLL first, to XX00 to XX12 (I had 13 of them) Step 3: close Evolution Step 4: Open Krusader or Thunar (actually, any File Manager should be able to get to these files as long as it can "Show Hidden files". Step 5: Navigate to /Home/[your_user_name]/.evolution/mail/local. Be sure to include the "." before evolution - this is a hidden folder and won't display unless you have enabled "Show Hidden Files" Step 6: locate all of the files with your unique folder name and delete them. The folders you moved are found in the directory with the unique name you gave and an extension of ".sbd". You can jut delete that directory and all of the related ones with the same file name. No need to open the one with .sbd and delete those files inside. Be careful here because when you delete these files they are not moved to Trash so are gone for good. That is why the Unique_Folder_Name is so important. Step 7: Open Evolution again. You will get a message that it can't locate your [unique_folder_name]. You won't get this message again. Your undesired directories/mailboxes are now gone. -- Evolution will not delete certain folders, claiming they are not empty, even though they appear to be empty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/72761 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
