On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 10:03 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > Thank you. I have checked out that page before and also this: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550414 > > > > As root and non root I tried the following: > > > > rm ~/.evolution/mail/local/inbox.ev-summary > > rm: cannot remove `/root/.evolution/mail/local/inbox.ev-summary': No > > such file or directory > > > > rm ~/.evolution/mail/local/inbox.ibex.index > > rm: cannot remove `/root/.evolution/mail/local/inbox.ibex.index': No > > such file or directory > > > > Any other ideas? > > > > Are you trying to use Evolution as root?? (If you are, a word of > advice, DON'T - logging in and running as user root as your normal > username will cause you many heartaches in the future.) > No, I don't, but thank you for the advice.
> If not, then all that's happening is that as root user the '~' > translates to '/root', and that's not what you want. (A '~' in a file > name means "my home directory", and if you are user root, that is > "/root"). Oops, I didn't know that. > You should be logged in as the user who is trying to run > Evolution when you perform the above commands, and the files they should > be trying to erase are usually in /home/<user>/.evolution where <user> > is the username. > > P. I would really appreciate if you could help me out, still very much the newbie. Here is what I write: rm ~/.evolution/mail/local.ibex.index. I read that as: home/grasshopper/evolution/local etc., and I get: cannot remove /home/grasshopper/.evolution/mail/local.ibex.index :No such file or directory. Where am I going wrong? Many thanks. grasshopper _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
