Re: [Evolution] can't access address book

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

You will need at least evolution 2.0.4 (i.e. not yet released, and cvs doesn't even have the patches yet) or evolution 2.1.3 for it to work very well on a 64 bit machine.  I only got an amd64 box last week to debug some of these issues.  

It may be that the db file format changes between architetures too, in which case you may need to do more than just drop the .db file in - but it may not be an issue too.

As for your clearing .evolution, because we use this gconf/registry rubbish, you'll have to also clear the registry settings for the addressbook 'sources' to really clear the settings, that is why the old ones you created are still 'visible but not there'.

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 22:26 -0800, Tim Hanson wrote:
> I just upgraded to an Athlon 64 and loaded 64 bit SuSE 9.2.  I had SuSE
> 9.2 on my previous 32 bit hardware.  The Evolution version is 2.0.1.
>
> The email client works fine, but selecting the contact list (local
> computer) brings up this error:
>
> "Error loading addressbook.
>
> "We were unable to open this addressbook.  Please check that the path
> exists and that you have permission to access it.
>
> I created a new dummy address book, but once created I received the same
> error when I tried to access it.
>
> I carefully went through the directories in ~/.evolution but couldn't
> find anything out of place.  I renamed ~/.evolution to something else
> and reinstalled.  Doing this created a new ~/.evolution directory, but
> selecting the contact list brought up the same address book names, and
> the same message.  So I'm missing a directory somewhere with information
> in it.
>
> I have a _lot_ of contacts wrapped up in this book.
>
>
>
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