Re: [Evolution] Calendar file messed up

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

You have to run "evolution --force-shutdown" before editing the file.
Then the changes will stick.

-- Dan

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 14:57, Steven P. Auerbach wrote:
> Somehow my calendar has hundreds of appointments on Dec. 31, 2027,
> probably from some synchronization which went bad. I believe this has
> caused all kinds of grief (for example, the "find" function on my Visor
> Prism crashes, with an error in TextMgr.c; also, the calendar component
> of Evo has crashed.)
>
> There are way too many entries to remove by hand, on my Visor, so I
> would like to edit some file to remove them. I found the offending
> entries in ~/evolution/local/Calendar/calendar.ics, and removed them
> (being careful to start at BEGIN:VEVENT, and end at END:VEVENT). But
> these events seem to be immortal: when I restarted Evo, the old
> calendar.ics file had been recreated, with the offending events still
> there.
>
> Any suggestions on how to eliminate them?