[Techtalk] SOLVED: Evolution crashes on startup

[Dan]

I'm using Evolution (mail client) under Gnome+Debian, and it crashes
occasionally. Today it crashed when I tried to access my calendar. More
importantly, when I ran it again, it would crash immediately. I
literally couldn't do anything with it before it would crash.

I guessed that the problem was caused by my calendar, because that's
what I was accessing when it crashed the first time, and that's what it
was displaying when it subsequently crashed on startup.

In the ~/.evolution directory, I deleted ~/.evolution/calendar, but that
wasn't enough. I found out that I also had to delete ~/.evolution/cache.
After that Evolution ran as before. My calendar was lost, of course, but
it ran as before.

If you're using Exchange and you value your calendar more than I do, you
can try to save it using the method listed here:
  http://www.ndsengineers.com/archive/index.php/t-59849.html
(briefly: export using Outlook, access using Exchange, then import using
Outlook again)

Thank goodness Evolution follows the Unix convention of making files
easy to reverse-engineer! It took me about an hour to figure out how to
fix this problem. I would have asked for help on LinuxChix, but, er, my
mail client wasn't working.   :-D

-- 
  The only thing 'express' about Outlook Express is how fast it
  spreads viruses. I like to call it LOOKOUT EXPRESS.
       - Jim Greenly, professor at Georgia Institute of Technology