Re: [Evolution] Contacts got lost when changing username!

[Svante R Signell <srs kth se>]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:10 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
>       Hello,
> it is stored in gconf, in /apps/evolution/addressbook/sources, there are
> paths like "file:///home/login/.evolution/..." so fix the login and it
> should starts to work. You can fix this
> in /apps/evolution/calendar/sources as well, as under memos and tasks.
>
> You can use either gconf-editor to edit those keys, or you can find it
> in ~/.gconf/apps/... in XML files, but you need to stop all evolution
> processes before playing with it and also stop gconf caching daemon so
> your changes will not be overwritten back from the cache. So I think the
> gconf-editor is much easier from this point of view (even it's harder to
> edit the keys itself there).
>       Bye,
>       Milan
Thanks a lot, problem solved. I used the gconf-editor to change the
file:///... entry in .gconf/apps/evolution/addressbook/%gconf.xml to the
new home path and username.

> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 14:42 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> > Resending, maybe the first message in December was unnoticed. I need
> > help, please!
> >
> > Dear Evolution-list,
> >
> > I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5)
> > on  an Athlon 64 computer, with Evolution 2.02 installed. After a
> > change of my login user name, all the Contacts data was lost.
> > (Fortunately not the mails). I'm trying to find out what happened,
> > but have no solution yet. 
> >
> > The address book is still found
> >  at .evolution/addressbook/local/system/
> > with the files addressbook.db  and addressbook.db.summary. However
> > they are not found when running evolution. Trying to create new
> > address books also fails, just the names are there, nothing can be
> > added to them. They can't even be removed. It seems that my previous
> > login username is hard-coded somewhere making the Contacts parts to
> > fail. Maybe it is due to some .gconf* settings or in .gnome* Please
> >  help me with this issue.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Svante Signell