[Evolution-hackers] local addressbook format ...

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi there,

	So - I've recently been the victim of multiple loss of addressbook
data; over the last ~year evolution has corrupted my data several times
for no readily comprehensible reason.

	Is this something other people have experienced ? if so - is it thought
to be an artefact of libdb ? and/or would we fare better with a plain
text / VCARD type format for the address data ? (and/or does the switch
to 2.0 migrate to a different format here). It seems the e-d-s
transition gives us a fairly clean break for this sort of thing - but I
guess the search logic might be too painful to write and using libdb
makes this substantially easier ?

	Then again - is it possible it's due to multiple concurrent wombats
running hitting my address data ? this my happen to me more regularly
since I tend to killall -9 bonobo-activation-server - which might result
in new children being spawned - what sort of locking is in-place to
handle that case ? [ we can work harder in b-a-s to stop that being
possible if this is the sum of it ].

	Thanks,

		Michael.

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