Hi Ralf That would explain it if the data was on the evolution-data-server as that was not deleted. A log file would have been useful
I normally use a wildcard with deleting with apt, so I checked what is deleted with the wildcard, and also stepped back through the CLI commands and I did use a wildcard > The following packages will be REMOVED > evolution* evolution-common* evolution-data-server* evolution-data- > server-common* evolution-plugin-bogofilter* evolution-plugin- > pstimport* > evolution-plugins* libebackend-1.2-10* libebook-1.2-20* libebook- > contacts-1.2-3* libecal-2.0-1* libedata-book-1.2-26* libedata-cal- > 2.0-1* > libedataserver-1.2-24* libedataserverui-1.2-2* libevolution* > 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 16 to remove and 0 not to upgrade. > After this operation, 37.3 MB disk space will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > Abort. > richard@richard-Inspiron-3580:~/.cache/evolution/mail$ sudo apt purge > evolution* But I didn't run the purge repeatedly as it appears I should have done Since changing from mbox to maildir, no warnings have appeared , the 3 dirs in cache/evolution/mail are now one single directory plus a trash directory.. May be it will behave ???? have to wait and see tnx Richard On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 21:57 +0100, Ralf Mardorf via evolution-list wrote: > On Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:31:32 +0000, Richard Bown wrote: > > Oh what an extremely friendly and helpful person > > If you close Evolution and uninstall the package evolution, Evolution > related processes are not necessarily stopped from running. You might > try to delete opened files. > > Juts for testing purpose add a new user and run Evolution there. > > Maybe you misunderstand that uninstalling the evolution package > doesn't > uninstall the evolution-data-server package, since evolution is just > a > suggested dependency of evolution-data-server. > > https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal-updates/evolution-data-server > > The Evolution related Debian/Ubuntu packages are > > evolution > evolution-common > evolution-dev > evolution-plugin-bogofilter > evolution-plugin-pstimport > evolution-plugin-spamassassin > evolution-plugins > evolution-plugins-experimental > libevolution > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/evolution > > assuming you don't have debug packages installed. > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
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