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Cannot delete calendars

Asked by Kiko Barcelli

Evolution allows me to create new calendars and feeds from web calendars including a special google type and standard caldev://

However, it isn't clear how to delete to delete the very first calendar that was created when I setup the application.

It also doesn't allow me to delete the webdav:// calendar I created to google calendar after reading googles instructions for connecting sunbird to google calendar which failed.

On my second attempt I created a google calendar that works using the special google type connection in the wizard.

Since I can't seem to get rid of the non-working caldev: calendar and evolution is extremely slow do to this...My intention is to delete all calendars and to start from a clean slate.

aptitude purge evolution && aptitude install evolution didn't empty my calendars nor did "rm -vir ~/.evolution"

Please Help!... Evolution is so slow I haven't been able to even try it yet.

Thanks

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Kiko Barcelli (kikobar) said : 		#1

I forgot to add that it allows me to delete any other calendar that I add, except that very first one.
Thanks

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Best Harvey Muller (hlmuller) said : 		#2

Kiko,

If your intent is purely to delete the original calendar and all its data, I think this is the method:

Run in a terminal:

    $ evolution --force-shutdown

This will forcibly shutdown all Evolution components. The base evolution calendar is found in this location:

   ~/.evolution/calendar/local/system/calendar.ics

You can then delete it by running in a terminal:

    $ rm ~/.evolution/calendar/local/system/calendar.ics

Then open Evolution and confirm all the entries are deleted. Evolution will recreate calendar.ics.

Please let me know if this solves your question, or if you require further information.

Thanks,

Harvey

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Kiko Barcelli (kikobar) said : 		#3

Harvey,

That was exactly what I needed. It worked perfectly.
Just an observation, Evolution didn't ask me to confirm the deletion of the entries, it just created a new blank calendar.

Thanks a lot.

Kiko

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randomubuntuguy (john4lists) said : 		#4

Harvey,
     Thanks for your help. In Intrepid 8.10,

    $ rm ~/.evolution/calendar/local/system/calendar.ics

didn't remove my webdav:// calendar.

nor did:
aptitude purge evolution
followed by
aptitude install evolution

Where are the config files for
evolution-data-server? Maybe that is where my config is being held
?

I wish this were more intuitive.