Re: [Evolution] ev-summary-meta folders in mail folder list

["Veerapuram Varadhan" <vvaradhan novell com>]

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 08:53 -0700, William H. Daffer wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I recently came back from some travel and discovered a change in  
> evolution (v2.0.2). Suddenly there are several empty folders with  
> names like the mail folders I created in the course of my work, but  
> with '.ev-summary-meta' at the end. I've tried expunging and then  
> deleting them, but they won't be deleted, evolution says they're not  
> empty.
> 
> Doing `finds' and `ls' of ~/.evolution I see files with these names,  
> they appear to be one of the many control files evolution creates,  
> but they clearly aren't the mail themselves, so far as I can tell the  
> email itself is stored in the  files without extension.
> 
> I'd love to get rid of these from the email client window. I have  
> enough folders as it is, I don't need 7 near duplicates that don't  
> have anything in them, as far as the mail window is concerned.
> 
.ev-summary-meta are introduced in 2.8 and and not in 2.0.2 - unless,
you are running any custom build.

If you can try any evolution >= 2.8.x - you wouldn't face this issue.

> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Also, is there someplace that defines the use for all the various  
> files evolution creates and which may be safely deleted without effect?
> 
Can be a valid entry to the FAQ section. Thanks.


HTH,

V. Varadhan

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