Re: [Evolution] Restore deleted address book

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > >    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).

Yes, logging out of X should stop all personal desktop daemons involved.
In this case, e-d-s and gconfd.


> 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.

Well, logging out of X and doing the maintenance work in a virtual
terminal might be a solution for you -- but it is in no way an option
for the average user, unfortunately. Granted, neither is the need to
'kill' a process. But this is considered a bug anyway, and will be
fixed. The [force-]shutdown options are, although they can be hard for
users, too.

Better solutions are being hacked on. In general, it should be easy for
a user to get all this data and settings back. At least there should be
an easy way to backup and restore it.


>    I'd appreciate your further insights in this matter.

Sure. :)

...guenther


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