Bug 831373

Summary:	Cannot delete Personal calendar (and rename doesn't stick)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kevin R. Page <redhat-bugzilla>
Component:	evolution	Assignee:	Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	lucilanga, mbarnes, mcrha
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Description Kevin R. Page 2012-06-12 21:49:55 UTC

The "Personal" calendar doesn't have a delete option. I have set another calendar to be the default, but it still cannot be deleted.

I also cannot rename it: if I do so in "Properties" the change is apparently accepted, but the name reverts to Personal when Evolution is restarted.

I had wondered whether the Gnome shell clock/calendar was locking the backend, but after a reboot it no longer seems to be displaying the content of the "Personal" calendar (hopefully it's displaying the new default).

evolution-3.2.3-3.fc16.x86_64
gnome-shell-3.2.2.1-1.fc16.x86_64

Comment 1 Milan Crha 2012-06-13 09:45:28 UTC

Thanks for a bug report, though this is not a bug. Any On This Computer/Personal source (calendar/tasks/memos/address book) is a "system" source, which users cannot delete or rename. This is done by design.

I cannot tell with respect of the gnome-shell, which calendars are used and which not, that might be question for gnome-shell developers. Nonetheless, I vaguely recall about some changes being done in gnome-shell's calendar, which might be part of 3.4.x of gnome-shell, thus Fedora 17. What exact changes they were I do not recall, I'm sorry.

Comment 2 Kevin R. Page 2012-06-13 10:04:18 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Thanks for a bug report, though this is not a bug. Any On This
> Computer/Personal source (calendar/tasks/memos/address book) is a "system"
> source, which users cannot delete or rename. This is done by design.

Thanks for the reply.

1) How can I delete all entries within this calendar? (rather than the calendar itself). Is deleting the calendar file on disk the least worst way? Now knowing the above I realise it was a mistake to import into the Personal calendar -- I should have created a separate test calendar. There are many thousands of entries covering more than a decade, so deleting individually isn't practical.

2) Rename in the Properties dialog should be greyed out for This Computer/Personal, then?

Comment 3 Milan Crha 2012-06-14 06:57:22 UTC

You can Actions->Purge old appointments and meetings from active calendars, though the easiest option is surely to delete files under ~/.local/share/evolution/calendar/system when evolution and evolution-calendar-factory is not running.

I just tried the development 3.5.3 version and the name is stored per localization, thus it sticks even after restart if you change it.