Re: [Evolution] problems retrieving addressbooks

[Dave Barton <bmcs myrealbox com>]

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 15:43 +0200, Miguel Decleire wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm having trouble trying to retrieve address-books after migrating from
> Fedora Core 3 (Evolution 2.0.2) to Debian Sarge (2.0.4).
> For all of the rest of the data, a simple copy/paste of the items to the
> new /.evolution directory was enough. For the addressbook, the main one
> ("system") was also immediately accessible too. But not the "sub"
> addressbooks I had created (which are filed
> in /.evolution/addressbook/local with a code number). I tried importing
> them, specifying ldif format, nothing (that I could think of) worked.
> It doesn't seem to be a distribution related problem, because I
> reinstalled Fedora on another hd, with no more success.
> It seems to me there must be a file related to the generation of the
> code names of the files, but I couldn't find anything about it. 
> Could someone help me with this?
> Or at least tell me how to get to read the db files?
>
> If this is a already reported issue, would you be so kind as to point me
> the bug issue or the thread?
>
> Thanks a lot

I had a similar problem migrating from 1.4 SuSE 9.0 to 2.2 SuSE 9.3. The
sub-addressbooks were not transferred as part of the migration process.
Fortunately I still had access to to the SuSE 9.0 partition. So I was
able to open 1.4 select all the contacts in the sub-addressbooks and
save each sub-addressbook as a single vcf file. I then recreated the
sub-addressbooks in 2.2 and imported the vcf files.

HTH

Dave