Re: [Evolution] Can't expunge trash

[grasshopper <marigold 6352 gol com>]

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 10:03 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > >
> > Thank you.  I have checked out that page before and also this:
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550414
> >
> > As root and non root I tried the following:
> >
> > rm ~/.evolution/mail/local/inbox.ev-summary
> > rm: cannot remove `/root/.evolution/mail/local/inbox.ev-summary': No
> > such file or directory
> >
> > rm ~/.evolution/mail/local/inbox.ibex.index
> > rm: cannot remove `/root/.evolution/mail/local/inbox.ibex.index': No
> > such file or directory
> >
> > Any other ideas?
>
> Are you trying to use Evolution as root??  (If you are, a word of
> advice, DON'T - logging in and running as user root as your normal
> username will cause you many heartaches in the future.)
No, I don't, but thank you for the advice.

> If not, then all that's happening is that as root user the '~'
> translates to '/root', and that's not what you want.  (A '~' in a file
> name means "my home directory", and if you are user root, that is
> "/root"). 
Oops, I didn't know that.

>  You should be logged in as the user who is trying to run
> Evolution when you perform the above commands, and the files they should
> be trying to erase are usually in /home/<user>/.evolution where <user>
> is the username.
>
> P.
I would really appreciate if you could help me out, still very much the
newbie. Here is what I write: rm ~/.evolution/mail/local.ibex.index.

I read that as: home/grasshopper/evolution/local etc.,
and I get:     
cannot remove /home/grasshopper/.evolution/mail/local.ibex.index
:No such file or directory.  Where am I going wrong?

Many thanks.

grasshopper