Re: [Evolution] addressbook.db and some minor nits

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On 14 Mar 2001 04:55:43 +0000, dan hensley att net wrote:
>       After recompiling Evolution on my new machine and moving
> over my evolution directory from my old machine, I
> discovered that I could no longer see any of my contacts,
> and any attempt to save a new contact crashed wombat. 
> After reading through the archives, I found that I needed
> to convert my db1 formatted file to db2.  So I did
> something like
> db2_dump addressbook.db | db2_load addressbook_new.db
> and then moved files around.  Unfortunately, this didn't
> work.  Still no contacts, and wombat still crashes.
>       So what can I do to get my old contacts???

not a clue...

>       A few other questions:  Sometimes when I start
> evolution, I get a dialog asking me to enter my IMAP
> password, and sometimes I don't.  I'd rather it never ask
> me until I try to access my IMAP folder.  Why does it ask
> sometimes and not others?

Probably depends on what the last folder you were looking at when you
closed it previously. Evolution tries to open the same folder that was
opened when you closed Evolution the previous session.

>       Finally, I noticed a new dialog asking if I want to move
> my Netscape mail to Evolution.  The problem is, I always
> say 'No', and it keeps asking me every time I start
> Evolution.

There should be a checkbox to have it never ask you again, that's what I
clicked and it hasn't prompted me since.

Jeff