They are all named "personal calendars", they can not be deleted but can be renamed

Also why when clicking and selecting "calendar properties" does nothing appear

If you open Akonadi Console, are you able to delete them there?

if you mean in the browser tab in akoadi console, nothing in that tab can be deleted

wonder if I see this because of an issue/bump/bug when KDEpim2 was installed

is there a defined method of cleaning out Kontact to it's defaults, I don't actually use it so there is no issue of data loss

appears to me the following would need to be deleted:

~/.local/share/akonadi

~/.config/akonadi/ (missed this the first time)

~/.kde4/share/config/akonadi*
~/.kde4/share/config/kontact*
~/.kde4/share/config/korganizerrc

~/.kde4/share/apps/korganizerrc
~/.kde4/share/apps/kontact

Make sure to include ~/.config/akonadi/ in your list of locations to clean out.

thanks, missed that one - even without it I seem to have gotten things up and running but will redo and include it just to do it right

and obviously akonadi should be stopped (sused akoaditray for this)

question: why are akonadi files in 3 distinct places (~/.local/share, ~/.kde[4] and ~/.config)? seems overly spread out and confusing - if it's a KDE app then shouldn't all file be under ~.kde[4]

Akonadi itself does not have KDE dependencies, only Qt. It was even proposed as a Freedesktop project (but the process there went nowhere).