Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

Well that message got well and truly mangled - that's not how it left
my editor!

P.

On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 16:40 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> Hi Pete it really is driving me nuts
> the offending file is the one with 5050 in the name
>
> richard@richard-Inspiron-3580:~/.cache/evolution/mail$ ls -ls
> total 12
> 4 drwx------ 3 richard richard 4096 Feb  5 08:54
> 0656774d545ea2bb57c9be746823f7d3f567198c
> 4 drwx------ 2 richard richard 4096 Feb  5 15:35
> 1527769677.8716.2@richard-Inspiron-N5030
> 4 drwxrwxrwx 3 richard richard 4096 Feb  5 15:57
> 7bb2e693532a510fb41eca211d9e5a026556fa10
>
> I can shut down evo , delete that  directory, and as soon as evo is
> restarted it reappears.
>
> Yes, because that is the name of the cache directory that Evolution
> creates. Evolution needs a cache directory in order to store its cache
> so creates it if it doesn't exist.
>
> I have tried deleting the account, from within evo
> and 
> running sudo apt purge evolimple way of flushing the cache so it can
> start as a
> > virgin installution
> that should remove evo and all its config files, 
> then deleted .cache/evolution
> but when I re install evo , everything that was deleted just reappeared
>
> No. On Linux removing an application does not remove user configuration
> files. In general re-installing things doesn't magically make things
> work.
>
>
> Now I suspect that as when a file is deleted the space it used still
> contains the data, until overwritten
> some mechanism may be recovering what was deleted.
>
> No, absolutely not what is happening at all. 
>
>
> There must be a simple way of flushing the cache so it can start as a
> virgin install
> or getting rid of that mail directory.
>
> Don't be fixated on the cache.  The cache just stores temporary files
> to save continually getting data from the network. The account
> configuration is stored elsewhere.  Andre has already pointed you to
> information on where all the Evolution data files are.
>
> Before playing with any of the configuration files you must ensure that
> Evolution, and all it's ancillary programs are shut down.  Some of them
> (such as dconf) maintain in-memory copies of the data that are written
> out when the program shuts down.  (This DOES NOT apply to the cache.)
>
>
> apologies for using html, the reason was line wrapping
>
> Please avoid it if you can, and also avoid top posting on this list.
>
> P.
>
>
>
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