I was backing up my dconf when I noticed it had sensitive personal information in reminders-past (full path /org/gnome/evolution-data-server/calendar/reminders-past). Apparently this is a list of past reminders that I never deleted, like "go to [friend]'s house" and it contains their address.
The thing is, I can't figure out how to access this list through the GUI, but I'm sure I've seen it before. How do I get to it?
Update: The GUI list popped up today because I had a new reminder. It seems to be running from /usr/libexec/evolution-data-server/evolution-alarm-notify, however, that doesn't solve the problem because programs in /usr/libexec aren't meant to be run by the end user. How do I get this program to launch myself? As a workaround, I guess I could set up a new reminder, but that would take time to sync and launch.
(My system's in French. Translation: «Rappels» = "Reminders"; «5 semaines en retard» = "5 weeks overdue"; «1 jour» = "1 day"; «Reporter / Annuler / Tout annuler» = "Postpone / Cancel / Cancel all".)
In gnome-calendar, I can find the events that correspond to the reminders, but not the list of past reminders.
I know I could just reset the dconf key, but I want to look at the GUI to get a better idea of how to prevent the system from saving this info in the future. I didn't see a way to disable reminder saving in the window that popped up, nor in Gnome Calendar, nor in Settings > Online accounts > (my Google account).
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.
Research
I installed Evolution but I can't find the reminders in there.
I searched "past reminder" on https://discourse.gnome.org/tag/calendar but didn't see anything relevant. (As an aside, this URL is linked as the "online help page" from the Calendar app page, but it's actually a forum.)
gnome-calendar --help had nothing relevant and man gnome-calendar doesn't exist.
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Example reminder
If it helps, here's an example reminder that doesn't seem to contain any personal info – it's just New Year's Day in Quebec – but I redacted some data to be sure, using angle brackets. It's from my Google account.
<40 hex digits A>
<40 hex digits B>
<10 digits A>
<10 digits B>
<10 digits C>
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250102
DTSTAMP:<datetime A>
UID:enrico-can_qc-20250101@kayaposoft.com
CLASS:PUBLIC
CREATED:<datetime B>
X-LIC-ERROR;X-LIC-ERRORTYPE=VALUE-PARSE-ERROR:No value for DESCRIPTION
property. Removing entire property:
LAST-MODIFIED:<datetime A>
X-LIC-ERROR;X-LIC-ERRORTYPE=VALUE-PARSE-ERROR:No value for LOCATION
property. Removing entire property:
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:New Year's Day
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
X-EVOLUTION-CALDAV-ETAG:<11 digits>
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:This is an event reminder
TRIGGER:-PT15H
X-EVOLUTION-ALARM-UID:<40 hex digits B>
END:VALARM
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:This is an event reminder
TRIGGER:-P6DT19H
X-EVOLUTION-ALARM-UID:<40 hex digits C>
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
