Emptying trash in evolution is hard [Solved]

sam · 2008-11-14 23:06:00

I have a pop and imap account set-up in evolution, and following an update a week or so ago, I can't empty the trash in either account from evolution. Evolution works fine, but whenever I try to empty the trash or expunge, it crashes and I get a bug buddy report. The reports are pretty random and vary widely, but are usually related to

camel-imap-provider: Unable to load summary no such table: trash

.

I tried setting up an account in my root account, and I was able to empty the trash. So I figured the problem is coming from the email folder, so I tried to delete files in .evolution of my account (as some google searching suggested). This did not help. I tried then deleting the .evolution folder and starting from scratch, but the settings for evolution are still there (for my accounts) and I still can't empty the trash. I'm not really sure what to do from here, does anyone know where else evolution stores mail settings?

Last edited by sam (2008-11-30 21:17:23)

sam · 2008-11-16 16:44:06

No one knows where evolution stores settings beside .evolution? Has anyone had a similar issue following the recent evolution update?

.:B:. · 2008-11-16 16:48:13

It stores stuff in ~/.gnome2 too afaik, and there's a third directory too.

sam · 2008-11-16 16:59:22

I had a hunch it was stored there, but ~/.gnome2 doesn't have any files related to evolution or mail.

.:B:. · 2008-11-16 17:32:27

Sorry, I'm not on any of my Linux boxes atm, I'm at work (meaning on XP). I think instead of .gnome2 it's .gnome{,2}_private or sth and definitely .gconf{,d}/

sam · 2008-11-16 22:02:31

The settings are stored in .gconf, but I had to go through the gconf editor to unset the appropriate key in /apps/evolution/mail.

Upon doing that, I could start my accounts from scratch. After reentering my pop account info, I was able to delete messages created through the pop account. After reentering my imap info, I still can't delete my imap trash folder. After evolution crashed once because it could not empty the imap trash, I couldn't empty the pop trash either.

I think the problem is related to either an evolution bug in this release, or perhaps something with my imap email provider (which I highly doubt).

Vertexer · 2008-11-19 09:54:35

Hi sam,

I can confirm this evolution bug: I'm unable to empty the trash (multiple IMAP accounts, different providers).

All I can do is expunge the inbox folder (ctrl + e), so evolution deletes the messages shown in the virtual trash folder.
So I think it has something to do with the handling of virtual folders.

Vertexer

Vertexer · 2008-11-30 21:12:56

Bug fixed in 2.24.2-1

sam · 2008-11-30 21:16:57

I was about to post the same thing. For those struggling with this problem in evolution 2.24.1, upgrade to 2.24.2.

defcon · 2008-12-17 18:48:46

I have 2.24.2 and i can NOT empty trash :-/

Ok, i removed .evolution/
Now it works.

Last edited by defcon (2008-12-17 18:54:47)

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Emptying trash in evolution is hard [Solved]

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Re: Emptying trash in evolution is hard [Solved]

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