Re: [Evolution] contacts

[Redeeman <redeeman metanurb dk>]

you are the hero! 173 contacts saved! would have taken me ages to
recreate, from now on i will make vcard backups of it :D

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 17:32, guenther wrote:
> > 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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