Re: [Evolution] Safety of removing .cache files

["Dr. John H. Lauterbach" <john lauterbachandassociates net>]

I was able to remove the .cache files without a problem.  I closed Evolution, used Nemo with elevated permissions to delete the files.  A restarted Evolution.  Problem solved.  Thank you to all for your comments.  John

On Fri, 2021-01-01 at 14:43 -0700, Zan Lynx wrote:

On 1/1/21 1:25 PM, Andre Klapper via evolution-list wrote:

On Fri, 2021-01-01 at 12:18 -0700, Zan Lynx wrote:

On 12/31/20 5:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

It's always safe to remove cached files. Evo will just recreate them

if

needed. Just be sure that Evo isn't running when you do it.

That is quite a caveat to add on there.

Evolution has so many small daemon pieces that it is almost impossible

to tell if it is "running" and nearly impossible to prevent it from running.

No. It's easily possible not to run Evolution: Just don't start it.

Yeah, right. I know for a fact that these Evolution data server bits

will access data when you least expect it. I just haven't looked

recently to see what particular data is used.

You seem to mix up two very different things:

Evolution and evolution-data-server.

I don't use Evolution on this Ubuntu machine. I've never configured it.

Then I wonder what brings you to this mailing list...

I have used Evolution in the past. I've even done development on it.

Mostly bug fixes and attempts at bug fixes. Trying to make Evolution

work for a linux-kernel virtual folder without becoming completely

confused or crashing with a 3 GB memory leak, for example.

Or trying to batch edit a bunch of downloaded email using Perl scripts.

And yet there are four /usr/libexec/evolution-* processes running. If

you kill one DBUS semi-randomly restarts it.

First there were "so many small daemon pieces". Now there are only four?

I can't make much sense out of this conversation so far.

Yeah I think I recognize your name from past conversations and you never

have been willing to understand other people's problems.

If you actually know for a fact that the cache files will only by

touched by the Evolution GUI client then just say so.