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

[Joep Blom <jlblom neuroweave nl>]

guenther wrote:

> 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...
>
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> > > I have saved the .evolution from my /home/user/ directory as well as the
> > > gnome2_private directory.
> > >      
> 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.
>
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>  
>
> Hard to say with the information provided...
>
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> > 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
>
>
>  
Guenther,
Thanks.Replies:
1; What I did was an upgrade from FC4 to FC5 but -unknowingly - the 
procedure crashed due to an error in reading the DVD, removing but not 
reinstalling practically all X-applications, including Evolution.
2.   I saved all subdirectories of $home related to evolution (also .gconf).
3. Of course I restored the directories before (re)starting evolution 
(most live CD's try to think for you, and start a.o. evolution so I had 
to shut-down evolution).
4. Thanks for the link to the archives.
5. What I asked for was a simple application (or a detailed description 
of the format) to display the information addressbook.db in human 
readable format (like addressbook.db.summary can be read with a simple 
ascii reader (vi) to extract the data when evolution is unreachable. I 
have solved it by exporting the address database as a vCard file. Now at 
least I can recover the content (OK, in a rather clumsy way) and read it 
with vi (I tried a MSW addresbook reader (not Outlook!) to import to but 
that was unsuccessful).
Anyway with the help of Andre and now you I have succeeded to 
communicate  again with my  network (mostly musicians) and I am very 
relieved.
Joep