Re: [Evolution] troubles with contacts (PS ximian linuxworld was great)

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On 03 Feb 2001 01:57:51 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> I am having trouble with contacts imported from the palm address book.
>
> I used the gpilot tools from gnomecc and obtained a file
> ~/MyPilot/Address.gcrd.  Here is the beginning of that file

Just to be clear here - you didn't use the evolution conduits but rather
the gnome-pim conduits to do this right?


> Here is the strange part part.  I deleted the ~/evolution directory,
> rpm -e everything but libunicode, and re-fetched the .8 preview.  When
> I tried contacts I at first got an expected nearly blank window with a
> msg about adding a contact but in under a second this was replaced by
> all my contacts.  Where did evolution store this?  I even moved the
> MyPilot folder to /tmp, no change.  I then went to the latest snapshot
> evolution-0.8-100_helix_2001020301, again deleted ~/evolution and
> again the contacts appeared after about a second
>
> Evolution displayed a box saying it was the first time I ran it and it
> was creating /home/gottlieb/evolution.
>
> So 
>
> 1.  Where is evolution keeping the contacts info even after
>     ~/evolution is removed?  This is just a curiosity.

Cached in the wombat most likely.  Do a killev to make sure all of evo
is gone.

> 2.  How do I get the phone numbers to appear?

Did you use the command line importer or the gui one?

> I attended linuxexpo and though the ximian jungle was well done,
> the demos were helpful, and the staff very informative.
> Good job!

Thanks!

-JP

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