Re: [Evolution] Copying address books

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 12:45, James Galagher wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 10:13, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 12:38, James Galagher wrote:
> > > My apologies if this is a FAQ (I couldn't find it).
> > >
> > > How do I move my Contacts from one computer to another. I tried copying
> > > the addressbook.db file, but that didn't work. 
> >
> > Hm, if you copy the addressbook.db file into the
> > ~/evolution/local/Calendar folder of the other machine, that should
> > work.
>
> I think you meant Contacts folder/directory. Yup, that's what I did.
> However, the new addresses didsn't show up, only the old default info.
> Then it hit me, it's not enough to just quit evolution, I had to run
> killev too. That did the trick. 

Never heard of killev.  So, "man killev" suggested trying 
"killev --help", so I did...

Wow.  Obviously, killev doesn't have a help facility.

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