Re: [Evolution] problems retrieving addressbooks

[Sushma Rai <rsushma novell com>]

Hi,

You have all the addressbook.db files back up right?
Are you able to access your personal book, and only the sub folders 
are failing?
can you just backup your .evolution/addressbook and re-create the
folders and place these db files under the directories created for 
the new sub folders in .evolution/addressbook/local/
(referring to gconf keys).?


Thanks,
Sushma.

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 11:59 +0200, Miguel Decleire wrote:
> This was very helpful to understand the situation. But so far, I can't
> say that I managed to get the data back...
> As you say, the new values get overwritten after logout and back in
> gnome, but the numbers of the group uid and source uid of the "Personal"
> addressbook have grown higher in the rewriting (and so for example, a
> small sub addressbook which had before a "greater" number than the
> "Personal", now has a "smaller" one. Maybe it is for that reason that it
> has been wiped out of the sources file, and maybe it is why gnome keeps
> overwriting the file?...) 
> I re-edited the sources file, tried to export it as you proposed by
> doing gconftool-2 --dump etc., went in tty1, shut down gconfd-2 by ps ax
> | grep gconf, imported the settings by gconftool-2 --load the-file.xml,
> got back in tty7, restarted the session from there, but then evolution
> wouldn't start. I got back the previous %gconf.xml file (the name of the
> file in nautilus and bash), and got evolution running again.
> I guess I made some writing mistake somewhere, but might the id numbers
> and their order in the sources file have something to do? Might the
> rewriting of the numbers get it right again, or would that mess the
> whole thing up?
> Maybe I should work outside of gnome altogether, but my fragmentary
> gnu/linux education hinders me a bit to do it (I'm a sort of long term
> newbie, still uneasy with vim...)
>
> > > Is there some workaround to access the db? It seems it's a Berkeley db
> > > file. Would the Berkeley DB software from sleepycat help to at least be
> > > able to read the data at least in some text mode? 
> >
> > don't know, i've only seen comments so far that it's very hard to handle
> > the db with external apps - if you succeed, please let me know.
>
> Sounds encouraging. Well, maybe I'll try later... ;-) 
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Miguel
>
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