Re: [Evolution] Cannot empty trash

[John Ross <john mystichill net>]

Well,
I do not wish the developers to take offence, but when one refers to the FAQ and the bug report mentioned therein, it goes back to 2001! Hence my shock-horror and the 'what if this was in the commercial world' scenario. How long is long enough?

In the meantime I have taken to starting evolution from the following script:

#!/bin/bash
export LANG=C
#shutdown if running
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
evolution --component=mail 

It takes a couple of seconds longer for evolution to start, but I don't mind: it solves the problem.

Though I hesitate to suggest it, since the real fix is apparently so difficult to achieve, perhaps the workaround could be built in to the app, as  a 'Delete index files on exit' item in Preferences. At least then users who aren't comfortable at the command line would not have to suffer bloating Trash folders.

John

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 13:14 -0500, Robert Seward wrote: 
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 00:46 +1100, John Ross wrote:
> > Let's try a little role-play... You, the developer, have created a GUI
> > app that regularly corrupts its own index files. You have been told
> > about the bug some time ago and done some research, now you have
> > turned up to a meeting with your PM claiming to have fixed it.
> > 
> Yes in this role-playing. Is the "user" a paying customer funding the
> "developers" work? If so, maybe this role-playing scenario is valid. If
> not, maybe the "user" needs to be patient and let the "developer" fix
> the root of the problem not the symptoms of the problem.
>
> I believe Mr Barnes has outlined an approach to fix the root of the
> problems. However we must be patient reap the harvest of fruit. 
>
>
> > PM: "OK what's the fix?
> > Developer: "The user has to open a terminal and delete all these files
> > called ~.xyzblahblah* every time it happens"
> > PM: "You're not listening. That's a workaround, not a fix. You can't
> > ask GUI users to run around rm'ing things! So when will you have it
> > fixed?
> > Developer: "But it is fixed."
> > PM: "You're still not listening! What agency are you from?"
> > Developer: "But... it's easy - all they need to do is..."
> > PM: "Look, the files called ~.xyzblahblah* don't even exist in the
> > current version, so you don't even have a workaround, let alone a fix.
> > What agency?"
> > Developer: "But..."
> > PM: "FRIDAY, 5pm, no workarounds - a FIX!"
> > 
> > John
>
> Peace,
> Rob