Re: [Evolution] Restore deleted address book

[George Reeke <reeke mail rockefeller edu>]

Dear List and Guenther,

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 01:15 +0100, guenther wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 18:59 -0500, George Reeke wrote:
> > Dear Guenther,
> >    Thanks.  I'm not sure why I couldn't find your posting with
> > the search on the gnome archives, but let's forget that for now.
>
> The damn archive search on mail.gnome.org simply is broken (read: it
> does not work at all). *sigh*  To search the mailing lists I recommend
> using Google and adding this to any search:
>
>   evolution site:mail.gnome.org
Thanks, I'll do this next time.

> >    Yes, there was just one address book.
> >    Greg Tassone yesterday suggested just restoring the contents of
> > ~/.evolution/addressbook from the backup.  I did this and everything
> > is OK now.  I think in my simpler situation this gave the same end
> > result as your procedure.
>
> Greg's suggestion was pretty fine, and I'm glad it already solved the
> issue for you. He just forgot to mention the bit about kicking e-d-s,
> since it holds the data in memory. Other than that, Greg's post is
> entirely correct. :-)

Well, I exited from gnome to a console prompt and did it there.
Now I'm curious?  Did I kill e-d-s etc. by exiting from the gui
environment, or is that not enough?  (I may have rebooted after the
restore, I don't remember).  Frankly, I'd be more comfortable (in
the future with this sort of thing) just getting out of gnome
than having to remember or look up which processes to kill,
especially since I read on the list that this changes in different
releases.
   I'd appreciate your further insights in this matter.
   All the best,
   George Reeke


> >    [I'm not posting this to the list because I think case is closed.]
>
> And I'm Cc'ing the list, since we are talking about issues everyone
> subscribed should know. :)  Hope you don't mind.
>
> ...guenther