Re: [Evolution] Re: [HC Evolve] Calendar files - where are t

[Benjamin Woo <bwoo mti com>]

unfortunately not.. i'm not seeing an empty data file.. i'm seeing the
OLD data file.. the old data just doesn't want to leave!!!

b



On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 11:14:08 Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> Benjamin Woo <bwoo mti com> writes:
> 
> > new and interesting development...
> > 
> > $ evolution &
> > $ cd ~/evolution/local/Calenar
> > $ ls
> > 
> > and it came out with calendar.ics, calendar.ics~ and one other file
> > 
> > then i did:
> > 
> > $ cd
> > $ rm -rf evolution/
> > $ evolution &
> > 
> > now you would have assumed that with the rm -rf command that all the
> > data files would have been deleted.. but when i ran evolution
> again..
> > BAM! the data was back.. ???
> 
> Yes.  The Evolution calendar re-creates its files on start-up if it
> cannot find them.  You are seeing a new, empty calendar file there.
> 
> If it is not empty and it still has your old data, then an older
> Wombat process is still lying around and saving the old calendar data
> from time to time.
> 
>   Federico
> 
> 

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