since today I have an issue with my Ubuntu Online Account Settings. I started Empathy to log into my messengers, but I got an error that Facebook, Google and MSN need an authentication. I tried to delete all of them, but only MSN I was able to delete. Facebook and Google account do nothing. Doesnt matter account is ON/OFF. Is there a way by delete a config file and reset Ubuntu Online Accounts in this way?
Your accounts are stored in file
It would certainly be a good idea to stop goa-daemon before editing this file...
I had this problem too . It seemed to occur after an upgrade, I could add new accounts, and disable old ones, but unable to remove old accounts using the proper windows. I eventually found that account information appeared to be stored in the directory
There where 3 files in there accounts.* ; I removed them all and rebooted the computer, and found all the online accounts where gone, I then re-created the new accounts manually as needed.
This is a bit of a heavy handed approach, so if you use it, I recommend you take a copy of the files before you remove them from that directory.
Did you try the following?
From https://help.ubuntu.com/14.10/ubuntu-help/accounts-remove.html
A great way to find files is to use the find command and to pipe it to grep.
I don't know much about the online accounts and mine get deleted correctly. Try updating your system and trying again, otherwise you can try and find the files. Apologies for not being able to answer your question directly.
NOTE: if you are getting a permission denied error trying prepending sudo to your commands.
You can remove online accounts by using dconf editor.
Open dconf-editor using either terminal or the application menu in unity. Navigate the menu items as:
com>canonical>unity>webapps
Select allowed-domains and you should see the installed webapps listed there.
Simply delete the list to make it empty.
If that doesn't do it, using dconf-editor, navigate to:
com>canonical>indicator>messages
Select applications and remove all webapps listed there as well.
Finally, the configuration files are all stored at:
/home/$USER/.local/share/applications/(replace $USER with your username.)You can try deleting them all and then restart (just to be safe)
You might be facing the same as mentioned on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-online-accounts/+bug/1168146 where you can also find the solution. Do:
in terminal... and then go back to Online Accounts to remove the entries.
I think you can very easily delete your Facebook and Google account. All you need to do is to just log in to the account and go the privacy settings and delete your account.