[Evolution] Re: Convert to List

[Steve Auerbach <STEVEN P AUERBACH saic com>]

Andre
(Note: subject should have been "Convert to Task", not "convert to list"
It turns out the problem was that my task list somehow grew to enormous
size: it had ~420 entries, and was ~20 MB in size. This probably
happened during a problem synchronizing with my PDA. In fact, tasks were
being created from the email, but since the task list was enormous I
simply didn't see the new tasks which were created. I solved the problem
by deleting the task list file
(~/.evolution/tasks/local/system/tasks.ics). (I couldn't delete the
bogus tasks using Evolution - Evo took way to long to delete them, since
the file was so big, and it crashed a few times). Now when I use Convert
to Task it works just fine.
Thanks for the advice.
Steve
> On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 08:50 -0400, evolution-list-request gnome org
> wrote:
> > hi steve,
> >
> > Am Freitag, den 16.09.2005, 15:36 -0700 schrieb Steve Auerbach:
> > > I right-clicked on a message, and noticed an item "Convert to Task". As
> > > far as I can tell this does nothing. Is there a How-To somewhere which
> > > explains how to use this?
> >
> > normally you should get a dialog window where you are asked in which
> > tasks subfolder (tasklist) the task (based on the email) should be
> > created. aren't there any new tasks with the summary set to the subject
> > of your email you tried to convert?
> >
> > also check if the "mail to task" plugin is activated under "Tools |
> > Manage plugins..." (normally it should be, otherwise the menu item
> > should not be displayed).
> >
> > if you start evolution from a shell, is there any valuable output, error
> > mesages referring to this?
> >
> > cheers,
> > andre
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Steve Auerbach <steven p auerbach saic com>