Evolution: Can't delete LDAP servers from list?

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_Max_ · Post by **_Max_** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:15 pm

Hi,

I have have a Mac at home and a computer running Gentoo at work - and I would like to share addressbook and calendar across these two computers.

The solution I thought might work would be to run an ldap (addressbook) and Apache-WebDAV (calendar) server on the Gentoo machine, and connect to that with various clients, including Evolution 2 and iCal (If there is a simpler way to do this, please let me know).

So I add a "localhost" ldap server, to which Evolution (for whatever reason) cannot connect. That's fine. Probably something wrong with the settings. Now I try to remove it (or change its properties): I click on the Contacts pane, and then right-click on the ldap entry that I want to remove. I see a context menu with "Delete" and a trash-can icon in it for a split-second, and then immediately get a dialog informing me "Error loading addressbook." Every time I try to get the context menu, I get the same message. Essentially, the dialog window prevents me from either deleting the entry or changing the properties. I experimented a bit, and I have a lot of ldap entries in there now...

The help file doesn't seem to have any information on how to remove ldap entries.

I had a look around my .evolution directory for these ldap entries and tried various things (in the course of which I managed to delete my local addressbook... great!), but I couldn't find a way to delete these either with the GUI or by modifying a config file.

Any ideas? (There must be an easy answer to this...)

Thanks.

Wi1d · Post by **Wi1d** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 5:57 am

Ha. Someone has the same problem as I do. Annoying isn't it? What make it worse is that I'm not able to delete my current settings!

Does anyone know how to delete evolution settings. I've tried, since I don't use many gnome apps, the following without any success. I can't seem to get rid of them!

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rm -rf .gconf* .gnome2* .evolution/

_Max_ · Post by **_Max_** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:28 am

I am now using Kmail, because LDAP and Webdav just doesn't seem to be supported properly by Evolution. Maybe in the next version...

Wi1d · Post by **Wi1d** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:36 am

I got it working now. I moved /tmp/gconfd-* out of the way and then deleted .gconf* .gnome2* .evolution/ in my home directory. I'm sure these are extremes but I don't use very many gnome apps. Once that was done I had another chance in entering my LDAP information and everything worked.

_Max_ · Post by **_Max_** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:55 am

It's good to know that there is a way of getting rid of these settings. Although with KMail, this is a bit easier...