Re: [Evolution] lost contacts

[James Richardson <jrichardson x-iss com>]

The default system addressbook is in
~/.evolution/addressbook/local/system. If you've got the addressbook.db*
files from your backup, can you not just overright those files?


On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:40 -0800, Greg Tassone wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 12:31 +0100, Nicola wrote:
> > Hi all...
> > since some day I have a problem with gnome, and today I've decided to
> > solve it drastically removing all .gnome .gnome2 .gconf etc directories.
> > Now gnome functions but Evolution has lost all my addresbooks except the
> > ... the default addressbook)
> ...
> >  i've fount that
> > in .evolution/addressbook/local are some folders with my contacts. The
> > problem is that the import procedure doesn't recognize those files...
> 
> 
> I don't have your answer, but wanted to at least give you some
> background.  The directories you deleted contain the
> settings/configuration for your Contracts (address books).  The actual
> data is stored in your "~/.evolution" directory.
> 
> This is good news in that you haven't lost your data.  However, short of
> restoring the configuration directories from backups, I'm not sure what
> process you would use to make those address-books visible again.  I'm
> sure one of the devs/bug-squashers will have some ideas for you.
> 
> ~ Greg
> 
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