I use Evolution (on Linux) as my calendaring app -- when I'm home, that is. Earlier this year, I was away from home for a couple of months. When I got back and fired up Evolution, I suddenly started getting hundreds -- *hundreds* -- of tiny windows on my screen . . .alarm notifications from all the events in my calendar that had passed over that two months. The load caused the system to slow to a crawl -- so slow that I couldn't do anything to stop the process. I ended up having to hit the reset button because I couldn't even switch to a virtual console to kill Evolution. I'm in a similar state now; I haven't run Evolution in a couple of months because of being away. I'd like to start using it as my calendaring app again. How do I prevent the flood of alarm announcements at startup? I've googled for some sort of a manual that will tell me either about command line options or about how to manually edit configuration files, but can't find anything except descriptions of how to modify Evolution's config once you have it running. I could just nuke my Evolution directory entirely; but I'd rather not do that, since there's a lot of persistent stuff (like birthdays) in the calendar that don't exist anywhere else. The archives of this mailing list show discussion of a similar problem, http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution lists ximian com/msg06920.html but I couldn't divine a solution from that thread. Any ideas? Or am I just stuck with the choice of either crashing my system once, or not running Evolution again? Thanks, -c -- Chris Metzler cmetzler speakeasy snip-me net (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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