Re: [Evolution] Empty contacts / messing with the database

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> first I want to thank you for your excellent work. Evolution is the best
> email client I've ever seen. :-)

Yeah, baby, yeah! :-)  Although there is room for some enhancements...
;-)


> My issue: I like the idea of having one central, CVS archived Contact
> system. Evolution is quite easy here, because it uses vCard as native
> format, as do I. My problem is that if I try writing directly to the
> database (through perls DB_File or BerkeleyDB modules) I create beside
> my contacts a whole lot of empty and undeleteable entries. As long as I
> can tell there is not additional information in the addressbook.db file
> and all versions are fine. Even the \0 termination for all entries is in
> there. 
> But Ev keeps believing that there is something wrong. I've been through
> your mailing list archives and bugzilla but haven't found anything that
> might help me with this topic.
> Before I start reading the source I thought maybe someone on this list
> has a clue what might be the reason for these ghost-entries.

Not sure, but that sounds kinda familiar to what I just came across:
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2003-April/000253.html

Chris Toshok wrote:
[...] I suggest you don't create/modify
addressbook.db entries using straight perl modifying the file's
internals.  Going through the wombat is really the better way to do
this, since you'll get notification if things have changed [...]

...guenther


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