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

[Marcus Thiesen <marcus thiesenweb de>]

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 00:52, guenther wrote:
> 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 [...]

I can't tell why I shouldn't do this. The format of the file is very
unlikely to change (vCards in Berkeley DB) and it should work.
My problem was solved by a clean reboot. All the ghost entries vanished
this morning. Maybe something with the complex structure Ev has, but I
don't want to understand it. 
The idear of writing a Perl module isn't that far off, because now there
is a fency Text::vCard and Text::vFile module to handle the parsing. The
only thing I'm missing is something like a LDIF module and to convert
between those both.
Maybe something for sleepless hours.

Regards,
        Marcus
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