Can't empty trash

Hi

Please open a terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and type the following commands. Please paste the output back here.

cd ~/.Trash
ls -l

that is the lowercase letter L in both instances.

I didn't get an answer. I'm new to Ubuntu and I don't know what I'm doing .... tony

Unfortunately this may be an evolution bug, here you can find a lot of possible workarouds, but all rather advanced: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/27014.

A simple solution would be to clear the mail folders all together. Would you mind clearing all the mail stored in evolution?

Be sure evolution is closed, then please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type or copy and paste:

find ~.evolution/ -name "*.ev-summary" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Restart evolution

Thank you

Hi, do you mean delete all the folders? ... tony

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 00:47 +0000, Wrwrwr wrote:
> Your question #22749 on evolution in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+question/22749
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Wrwrwr proposed the following answer:
> Unfortunately this may be an evolution bug, here you can find a lot of
> possible workarouds, but all rather advanced:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/27014.
>
> A simple solution would be to clear the mail folders all together. Would
> you mind clearing all the mail stored in evolution?
>

You've skipped a slash, should be:

find ~/.evolution/ -name "*.ev-summary" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

:)

Try what marcobra advised first, it should delete just what's really causing the problem. If that doesn't work, yes i mean a complete evolution reinstall.

Please try the:

find ~.evolution/ -name "*.ev-summary" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

command...

Sorry, of course you'd delete folders using terminal or a file manager (press ctrl+h to show this hidden .evolution folder), not from inside evolution.

a@aaa:~$ find ~.evolution/ -name "*.ev-summary" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
find: ~.evolution/: No such file or directory

Thank You VVVVery much!!! It Worked you guys are great .... tony

I just loaded Ubuntu 3 days ago and I'm still learning it. I like it very much. Much better than Windows 2000! Thank everybody for your help. Linux is great! .... tony

i had the same problem after using filters to move inbox mail to folders. on a dell netbook
i only had 17mb left.
also the contents of the mail didn't match the headers anymore. in the trash folder

i used the restore from the backup tar.

error while expunging folder
error storing '~/.evolution/mail/local/inbox(mbox)': writing to temporory mailbox failed: /home/orac/
.evolution/mail/local/inbox : success

error storing '~/.evolution/mail/local/inbox(mbox)': detected a corrupt mbox file or an invalid 'from'
header

what is it telling about how it deletes trash data?