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. >
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