Re: [Evolution] Contact problems - CORRECTION

[Eric Lambart <lambart got net>]

Sorry, I don't know what happened.  My message should have began "I
think this is the problem that may be solved by..."

If this is inded related to the bug I'm thinking of, other notes on this
may be found at:
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6804

On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 20:37, Eric Lambart wrote:
> I think this is the problem by selecting all, then exporting (Save As)
> your contacts to VCard format (make sure to select a directory you have
> write access to).  Quit Evolution; Backup ~/evolution/addressbook.db,
> delete it, restart Evolution, and import the file you saved in VCard
> format.  You should have all your contacts back and (hopefully) not have
> this problem.
>
> I read about this in the past few weeks and just tried it today for the
> first time when I encountered this message, and this procedure fixed it.
>
> Unfortunately I only encountered the error msg while trying to change a
> card; I still can't sync anything :(.
>
> --Eric
>
> P.S. If the relevant person is reading this, I think there's a bug and
> an inconsistency with this process.  I'm going to check for a bug and
> file one if necessary: 
> 1) Save As VCard tries to save in the root directory by default, and
> doesn't give you an error even though it has no write access and fails.
> 2) Save As VCard doesn't put a default extension on the file (which I
> believe is .vcf by convention)
>
> On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 12:20, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 17:56, Janne Morén wrote:
> > > I just ran into a problem with my contacts. I sync:ed with my Pilot for
> > > the first time (and everything went very well). As a result, I got some
> > > redundant contacts - people entered separately on the Pilot and in the
> > > Contacts - and tried to remove them.
> > >
> > > Whenever I try to delete a contact (or, it seems, change it in any way)
> > > I get a "Error removing lits: card not found" error. 
> >
> > This is on the desktop?  If so, there was some bogus card ID stuff on
> > the desktop a while back and I suspect this is causing the problem.
> >
> > -JP