Re: [Evolution] Why I must stop using Evolution

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 09:55 -0400, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 17:46 +0100, Harald Beck wrote: 
> > Hi guys,
> > here is some feedback to version 2.26 running under ubuntu.
> > First, I encountered a couple of very annoying bugs: (No, I don't want 
> > to engage in Bugzilla; sorry.)
> > * In the calender view, where tasks and memos appear on the right, the 
> > memo list is empty, though there are memos listed in the memo view.
> > * Evolution crashes (!) each time I edit a previously created 
> > appointment to make it an recurring event. So if I forgot to specify 
> > that at the time of creation, I have to delete it first, and create it 
> > again, making sure I edit the recurrence information before closing the 
> > formular.
> I use 2.26.3 on Debian (Ubuntu is based on Debian so they're very
> similar) and haven't experienced this.

I'd suggest the solution is to stop using Ubuntu which seems to
experience above-average instability.

My Evolution doesn't crash or hang.

> > * If I start the computer from hibernating (having Evolution started 
> > before hibernating), I'm prompted for the password for one of my two 
> > mail accounts -- without effect (endless loop); so I have to cancel. 
> > This does not happen, if I shutdown the computer, and start Evolution as 
> > usual. (That problem seemed to be linked with using ubuntu; but why does 
> > it work for the other account!?)
> this is very likely a network ACPI thing. Especially if your on
> wireless. Most systems resume slowly after hibernating and your likely
> not getting your network connect back up as fast as you might expect
> it. Have you tried a webpage or pinging something at the same time as
> it's asks you for your pass? 

Ditto.  After suspend/resume the wireless can occasionally take a
L-O-N-G time.  Seems much improved as of late [openSUSE 11.1] but I may
just not have seen it since I don't suspend/resume very often.

> > There are other suggestions which are not bugs, but they shall not 
> > concern us here.
> > I could live with the bugs above for some time, but: Today I started 
> > Evolution, and ALL calendar, task and memo entries were gone! The 
> > according lists to file them are still here, but no items. In other 
> > words, without doing anything, all information is gone and I have no 
> > clue why.

Yikes.

> > I enjoyed using evolution more and more since I started using it a 
> > couple of months ago and so I managed to live with the mentioned bugs 
> > which were indeed annoying.

You are way more tolerant than I would be.

> > But I cannot possibly use a software that deletes stored information, or 
> > stores it in such a way that it cannot be retrieved.

What you have experienced is not by any means "normal".  Evolution has
never eaten my data.

> Short of a drive failure of some sort I highly doubt Evo deleted your
> data. It must be there somewhere...Post the findings from your below
> suggestion and someone here will get to the bottom of this. 
> > Well, I might go now browse ~/.evolution and see whether I can do 
> > anything about, but hey, I wanna USE this software and not hack it.
> > Hope that helps & looking forward to a (much) more mature version,
> > Harald
> Don't loose hope so quick. Evo is quite mature already ;)

Evolution does provide a backup option too.   Although it has never
eaten my data I use that regularly.
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