As this has been marked as the ultimate non-duplicate of a trail of duplicate bugs, I thought of reporting here the workaround that worked for me on Karmic 64 bit:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/287811/comments/6 -- I could not empty the trash folder https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/325157 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs