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Actually I wanted to try geary so I added an E-mail to try it out. now I want to remove my E-mail from geary accounts list, but "-" button is off and I cannot remove it (also I searched about it but no luck!). On the other hand after so many tries I also removed ~/.local/share/geary/[E-mail] directory but it keep loading my E-mail account...

Now How can I totally remove my E-mail and then unistall it?

Cy8099
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How many accounts are there in total? If you are trying to remove the last one, you'll need to either add a second account, or manually remove the account by deleting ~/.config/geary/ACCOUNT_ID as well as ~/.local/share/geary/ACCOUNT_ID (replacing ACCOUNT_ID with the actual id of the account, of course), per Bug 714572.

Update:

If you have installed Geary from Flathub, those paths are a little bit different: ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Geary/config/geary/ACCOUNT_ID and ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Geary/data/geary/ACCOUNT_ID.

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I tried deleting the ~/.config/geary and so forth folders. I tried sudo apt purge geary and reinstalling it. I tried resetting the settings for the app in dconf editor. Nothing worked.

Eventually, I did a grep on everything to find my e-mail address and somehow Geary was looking at the accounts in ~/.config/evolution, ~/.cache/evolution, and ~/.local/share/evolution even though I've never used Evolution, so if you can't remove an account from Geary no matter what you do, try deleting those directories.

Chai T. Rex
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