Re: [Evolution] contacts

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> i played with multisync, and it syncs, but duplicates, not a big deal, i
> just removed the duplicates, but that showed up to be deleting
> everything, as it showed them twice only, and it synced my workstation
> like that too, so now i have no contacts, i though "ok, i will just look
> at my backup archive", i made a bzip2 of my ~/evolution. in that dir i
> see local/contacts, and there are some files there, but it doesent work
> just to copy them from my bzip2 into ~/evolution. why? is it saved in
> gconf? how do i recover? (if its possible)

Before extracting the files to ~/evolution/local/Contacts you have to
kill the background task as well. Close Evolution and run

$ evolution --force-shutdown

Then extract you backed up addressbook.db.

...guenther


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