Re: [Evolution] Copying address books, killev

[Kenneth Porter <shiva well com>]

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 11:32, Ron Johnson wrote:

> > > On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 12:38, James Galagher wrote:

> > > > How do I move my Contacts from one computer to another. I tried copying
> > > > the addressbook.db file, but that didn't work. 

You could export the whole folder to vcard and then import it on the
other machine.

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

Note that killev is a Perl script. It uses "kill -9", which I find
esthetically displeasing, so I made a private copy that uses "kill
-TERM" instead. Haven't had that fail yet. Ideally it should try -TERM
first and fall back to -KILL only if -TERM fails.