Re: [Evolution] unable to delete a task that is absent on an EWS server

[Dan Kortschak <dan kortschak io>]

That interpretation is certainly what I expect caused the problem.

Before sending my post, I looked through the ~/.cache/evolution/tasks
dir and found a cache.db that held the expected text and had moved that
away. I suspect that it existed in more than one location since it
didn't remove the issue, or it could be the calendar factory was still
running - I didn't check (I did stop evolution itself, but in my
experience, the data server is difficult to kill as you suggest).

I ended up just deleting the account under evolution and reestablishing
it on the basis that that would properly blow away the cache. That has
fixed the issue.

thanks


On Thu, 2019-10-17 at 11:41 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-10-17 at 18:12 +1030, Dan Kortschak wrote:
> > Is there a way to purge this task from the tasks the evolution
> > believes exist but that it cannot identify on the remote store?
>
>       Hi,
> it would be definitely interesting to know what caused it [1], but if
> you want to just fix the things, then go to
>    ~/.cache/evolution/tasks/
> find a directory for that particular tasks list and move it away.
> Then
> restart evolution-calendar-factory process, which will cause the task
> list to populate from scratch. You should not have running evolution
> processes (ps ax | grep evolution) while playing with the internal
> data
> files, but it's not always possible (for example GNOME Shell restarts
> the calendar factory when it disappears).
>       Bye,
>       Milan
>
> [1] The EWS server sends list of created/modified/removed items
> between
>     checks and evolution-ews uses it to synchronize the content
> locally.
>     What you face can mean that the deletion was not done properly on
>     the local side.
>
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