Re: Evolution: Starting Over

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On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 07:40 -0600, c. marlow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to erase everything in Evolution and start it over as if
> I
> had just installed Fedora and Evolution
> 
> I asked on Reddit and I got this far:
> 
> I was able to do:
> 
> rm -rf ~/.config/evolution
> 
> rm -rf ~/.local/share/evolution
> 
> rm -rf ~/.cache/evolution
> 
> 
> But when I get to:
> 
> dconf reset /org/gnome/evolution/ 
> 
> is where the trouble starts... 
> I can't get this command to work:
> 
> [chris@fedora ~]$ sudo dconf -f reset /org/gnome/evolution/ 
> [sudo] password for chris: 
> error: unknown command -f
> 
> Usage:
>   dconf COMMAND [ARGS...]
> 
> Commands:
>   help              Show this information
>   read              Read the value of a key
>   list              List the contents of a dir
>   write             Change the value of a key
>   reset             Reset the value of a key or dir
>   compile           Compile a binary database from keyfiles
>   update            Update the system databases
>   watch             Watch a path for changes
>   dump              Dump an entire subpath to stdout
>   load              Populate a subpath from stdin
> 
> Use 'dconf help COMMAND' to get detailed help.
> 
> 
> 
> [chris@fedora ~]$ sudo dconf reset /org/gnome/evolution/ -f
> error: -f must be given to (recursively) reset entire directories
> 
> Usage:
>   dconf reset [-f] PATH 
> 
> Reset a key or dir.  -f is required for dirs.
> 
> Arguments:
>   PATH        Either a KEY or DIR
>   KEY         A key path (starting, but not ending with '/')
>   DIR         A directory path (starting and ending with '/')
> 
> [chris@fedora ~]$ 
> 
> 
> Any ideas on what I should do?
> 
Hi,

Never tried to do this, but could be argument position issue:
it says:

... reset [-f] PATH ...

But you only tried `-f` before `reset` and after `PATH`, not after
`reset` and before `PATH`, `-f` is an argument to `reset` and maybe
position dependent.

Regards,
Branko
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