Re: [Evolution] evolution 2.26.1 ubuntu can't empty trash

[peng shao <shallpion gmail com>]

2009/11/13 John Ross <john mystichill net>:
> Looking at some forums, it seems this bug has been occurring for YEARS!
> When you go to empty the trash, the GUI gives a message "Error expunging
> folder". If you start E from the command line, attempting to empty the trash
> gives this:
> ________
>
> (evolution:7072): camel-local-provider-WARNING **: Didn't get the next
> message where I expected (301640926) got 301852497 instead
>
> (evolution:7072): camel-WARNING **: Error storing
> '~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox (mbox)': Summary and folder mismatch, even
> after a sync
>
> (evolution:7072): camel-WARNING **: Error storing
> '~/.evolution/mail/local/Sent (mbox)': Error storing
> '~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox (mbox)': Summary and folder mismatch, even
> after a sync
> ___________
>
> The following script deletes all the the .index .data and .meta files and
> will temporarily fix the situation, but it soon recurs:
>
> _______
>
> #!/bin/bash
> export LANG=C
> set -e
> evolution --force-shutdown
> for each in index data cmeta; do
> find ~/.evolution/mail/local -type f -iname "*.$each" | xargs rm
> done
> rm ~/.evolution/mail/local/folders.db
> _______
>
>
> What is going on? Am I missing something?
>
> John Ross
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I had the same issue on a gentoo machine, and have no answer yet :(
everytime I had to delete the .index files manually.