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

[Joep Blom <jlblom neuroweave nl>]

guenther wrote:

> > 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).
> >    
>
> That means e-d-s was running as well. When restoring your ~/.evolution/
> and ~/.gconf/ dirs, you need to make sure e-d-s and gconfd respectively
> are not running, as they do hold the relevant data in memory and don't
> care if someone forcefully changed the data on disk without their
> knowledge...
>
> For reference, it has "proofed to work" to shutdown both these processes
> *before* and *after* restoring the data and settings. By "working" I
> mean, I used these steps quite often when talking desperate users though
> the process of saving their balls, err, data on IRC. ;-)  Note though,
> that this possibly /can/ fail, and the odds for this failing most likely
> get higher when actually using the desktop while restoring. By shutting
> down I mean running these commands:
>
> $ evolution --force-shutdown
> $ gconftool-2 --shutdown
>
>
>  
>
> > 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 
> >    
>
> The detailed description of the format would be "Berkeley DB". :)
>
>
>  
>
> > 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.
> >    
>
> Good to hear this. :)
>
> ...guenther
>
>
>  
Guenther thanks,
I am familiar with shutting down gconf with gconftool, but forget it too 
often ! (stupid me I know). But I'm very happy with your mentioning of 
the database format as I can easily find it and eventually write a 
simple Perl script to directly read addressbook.db.
Thanks again
Joep