On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:43, Brian V Bonini wrote: 
> On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 19:58, Brian Parish wrote:
> > Is there a way of telling evolution to clear calendar entries older than
> > a certain date, or will they just accumulate forever? (I'm running
> > 1.3.3)
> > 
> 
> Perhaps you could write a small script to purge the
> ~/evolution/local/Calendar/calendar.ics file which contains date stamps
> for the appointments among other things.
> 
Hmmm.  Guess so if I was willing to trust my ability to preserve the
file integrity, but anyway....

thought I had an elegant solution.  Turns out that if I click on this
file in Konq, it opens up in Korganizer.  This has an archive/delete
function, which seems to work.  I tell it to delete all calendar entries
older than a given date, it gives me a list of all the entries that will
be deleted and I say "do it" and save the file afterwards.  My calendar
file shrinks from 1MB to 32K and all looks good.  If I open the calendar
again in Korganizer, the old entries are gone.

Now I run evolution again.  Bang, the file immediately reverts to 1MB
and the old entries are back.  That's clever!  Just in case this is some
sort of "I don't really delete, just move the pointer" type problem, I
tried copying the small file somewhere else, deleting the original, then
copying it back.  Same result.  Run evolution and all the old entries
are back.

Magic!?!?

Brian


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