Re: [Evolution] addressbook only partly visible (2nd time)

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > I have had a nasty crash, due to a faulty DVD-reader when upgrading from
> > FC4 to FC5 resulting in the disappearance of crucial parts of the
> > xorg-system and the evolution installation. I need to repartition the
> > disk to install a fresh FC5. I need however my evolution as all my
> > addresses and appointments are now unreachable!!.

Unfortunately I don't really get what you did exactly...

The best way for /any/ app to restore the data after setting up the
system from scratch is, to restore the data *before* starting the app.
In a generic way this is, to restore your entire $HOME before logging
in...


> > I have saved the .evolution from my /home/user/ directory as well as the
> > gnome2_private directory.
>
> as already noted, evolution stores your account settings (and also some
> information about your address books) in gconf at
> $HOME/.gconf/apps/evolution.
>
> > To get the information again I installed an Ubuntu Breezer Life CD which
> > has evolution 2.4. (My old evolution was I think 2.2 or 2.3).After some
> > juggling I was able to read the addresses but of the > 200 addresses
> > only 6 are shown and they seem to be randomly chosen. Also the header
> > categories is not shown in the display list (although it appears in the
> > full address display) and the categories I had added (about 10) are not
> > visible in the category list. I haven't as yet destroyed the original
> > account as I don't know what more I need.
>
> categories are stored in gconf too afaik.

The master category list is stored in GConf, yes. However, every
Contacts knows about its own categories. These are just not visible in
the UI until they are added to the category master list again.


> > Is there maybe another program to read addressbook.db.I can read the
> > names and E-mail addresses from addressbook.db.summary with a simple
> > ascii reader but not the complete information.
> > I hope somebody can give me the solution as it is simply a disaster when
> > all my addresses are lost!! Why won't evolution 2.4 read the addresses
> > (as the are there!).

Hard to say with the information provided...


> what is the output of "ls ~/.evolution/addressbook/local/"? how many
> address books do/did you have?
>
> kindly also check
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2005-August/msg00220.html

Andre, dude... Rather than writing up this yet again, why didn't you
simply point to my previously posted generic address book recovery
instructions? :-)

See this post for some generic recovery instructions:
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2006-January/msg00204.html

...guenther


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