Re: [Evolution] Trash and Compose wierdness !? -[SOLVED -- I hope]

[William Case <billlinux rogers com>]

Hi Patrick;

On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 20:23 -0400, William Case wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 12:37 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 18:19 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:47:58 -0400
> > > William Case <billlinux rogers com> wrote:
> >
> > > > Trash won't go away, delete or expunge.  I had this problem before.
> > > > Now it is really wierd.  After I right click on trash and click on
> > > > 'Empty Trash' a few of the trash items are deleted but the rest
> > > > remain.  If I 'evolution --force-shutdown' and re-open all the trash
> > > > is gone -- for about a half an hour, then it is all back.  Its return
> > > > doesn't seem to coincide with new mail or anything else ???
> > >
> > > Perhaps an indexing problem. Try the Vacuum script (see the recent
> > > archives) and see if it fixes it.
> >
> > The vacuum script seemed to work.  Trash has been emptied and stayed
> > empty for 12 hours now.  Compose (e.g. this post) still wants to stop
> > from time to time for a gulp of air or whatever.
>
> Well, 8 hours after my last post and all 256 of my trashed and expunged
> items are back.  I know time doesn't have anything to do with it; but I
> thought mentioning it was a way to show the randomness of trash's
> reappearance.
>
>
> PS I'm posting this in Claws-mail, just to try it out :-)

How did the Claws-mail experiment work out. I am thinking of changing.
Evolution has too many nit-picky things that never seem to get fixed.

Re-vacuumed.  This time the expunged files disappeared for 24 hours.

hmmm  As I look at the items, they are all dated middle of May to end of
July.  On average, for me, there should be 8,000 -10,000 emails trashed
in that time period -- not just the same 256 that keep reappearing.  I
wonder why most are being expunged but a few are not?

I am getting fed-up.  This evening I am going to dig into the guts of
and see if I can manually remove those files.  If I destroy something
along the way I will just remove Evolution and try either Thunderbird or
Claws-mail.  Too bad I have been using Evolution for four or five years
and I kind of like it in an old ripped T-shirt kind of way.

-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3
Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 22.3.1