On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 08:53 -0700, William H. Daffer wrote: > Hi; > > I recently came back from some travel and discovered a change in > evolution (v2.0.2). Suddenly there are several empty folders with > names like the mail folders I created in the course of my work, but > with '.ev-summary-meta' at the end. I've tried expunging and then > deleting them, but they won't be deleted, evolution says they're not > empty. > > Doing `finds' and `ls' of ~/.evolution I see files with these names, > they appear to be one of the many control files evolution creates, > but they clearly aren't the mail themselves, so far as I can tell the > email itself is stored in the files without extension. > > I'd love to get rid of these from the email client window. I have > enough folders as it is, I don't need 7 near duplicates that don't > have anything in them, as far as the mail window is concerned. > .ev-summary-meta are introduced in 2.8 and and not in 2.0.2 - unless, you are running any custom build.
If you can try any evolution >= 2.8.x - you wouldn't face this issue. > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Also, is there someplace that defines the use for all the various > files evolution creates and which may be safely deleted without effect? > Can be a valid entry to the FAQ section. Thanks. HTH, V. Varadhan -- Veerapuram Varadhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell, Inc. Software for the Open Enterprise™ http://www.novell.com _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
