Evolution 2.2 (Hoary) reset?

Arnold Maestre arnold.maestre at gmail.com
Fri Nov 19 20:33:29 UTC 2004


On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:22:51 -0500, Matt Philmon
<mphilmon at elevatorchannel.com> wrote:
>  
> I've been running Hoary for a few days, updating as new/updated packages are
> released. Today I tried out Evolution 2.2. Setting up my POP mail account
> was easy and worked nicely, as expected. Connecting to our Exchange Server,
> however, didn't work and Evolution crashed while trying to connect to it. No
> big deal... this is just a testing box anyway and I was curious. However,
> every time I start up Evolution now it tries to connect to that account
> which it failed to create (Exchange) and just locks up completely. I have to
> kill it. What I'd like to do is wipe out my Evolution profile completely
> which I imagine would fix the problem. I tried deleting the entire
> ".evolution" folder in my home directory but it just replaced it back. So...
> Evolution has a backup location somewhere. Where? Is there another way to do
> this? 

The not so subtle way, assuming wiping out your mails, contacts and so
on is ok, would be:

rm -rf ~/.evolution

You've been warned

-- 
Arnold Maestre




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