Re: [Evolution] troublesome cache

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 17:39 +0000, Richard Bown wrote:
> I tried asking on the Linux mint forum and just getting called a liar
> as they think it doesn't happen.

Hi,

it's more likely that you aren't a liar, but much likely that you don't
let go guessing. Seemingly all of us who replied to your request reason
that what you did so far, likely suffers from Evolution related
processes, that are still running, when you delete files.

Ensure that all Evolution related processes are terminated. Run 'ps aux'
or similar, to check it before and after you deleted files that probably
contain unwanted data. Likely this solves the issue.

You never know, anything can happen, so if it shouldn't solve the issue,
then for testing purpose add a new user account and run Evolution by
this user, just to see, if something freakish is going on, that even
affects a clean user account.

If you really want to overdo it by purging packages, than before
reinstalling the packages, run "sudo apt clean" to absolutely ensure,
that packages are downloaded and not for whatsoever reason are installed
from the local apt cache. You could even consider to run
"sudo apt update", "sudo apt autoremove",
"sudo apt install --fix-broken", "sudo dpkg --configure -a",
"sudo apt full-upgrade" and reboot before installing Evolution again.
You even could check that no third party repos are enabled and that all
needed official repos are enabled.

Regards,
Ralf