Re: [Evolution] evolution-addressbook-export - Couldn't load addressbook NULL

[Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee gmail com>]

On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 07:02 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 21:53 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 21:17 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> > > Ironically, I was halfway through opening a bug when it started working
> > > again. I will update again if this stops working. Doing serious
> > > maintenance on this machine, including a total reinstall of packages
> > > (killed quite a few libraries in a hard crash), something must have gone
> > > right....
> > >
> > > Weird that you would have the error as well though. It works for me as
> > > of today, without any change in evo version. Would you know what libs
> > > are called for this particular function, I can check whether any of
> > > those was updated.
> >
> >     Hi,
> > it's trying to open your default or system address book when you do not
> > specify any, thus if the preference of the default address book changed
> > to a book which can be opened/is available, then it can probably work.
> > I'm just guessing here, though.
> >     Bye,
> >     Milan
>
> I'm aware of that from my googling, but in my tests I ensured that the
> address book I wanted was selected as Default.
>
> Perhaps a following restart of e-d-s did it, just maybe. Will re-post a
> new message/bug if I encounter this again.
Closing off on this topic, I just today stumbled upon the man-page for
evolution-addressbook-export at
(http://fly.isti.cnr.it/cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/man/man1/evolution-addressbook-export.1.gz?type=man)

The crucial thing I could not find out
from /usr/lib/evolution/2.30/evolution-addressbook-export -h was that
the -l option exported ID, name, number-of-entries and that the
[ADDRESSBOOK] was referred to by this ID (which seemed like a file-path
to me, probably because it IS a file-path).

In any case, for reference, if -l gives me this:-
[ngoonee ngoonee-laptop ~]$ /usr/lib/evolution/2.30/evolution-addressbook-export -l
"file:///home/ngooneearch/.evolution/addressbook/local/system","Personal",567
"file:///home/ngooneearch/.evolution/addressbook/local/1248494207 12033 0 ngoonee-laptop","Collected 
Addresses",119
"file:///home/ngooneearch/.evolution/addressbook/local/1248507467 12156 0 ngoonee-laptop","Non-contacts",1

Then I should refer to the second address book by:-
/usr/lib/evolution/2.30/evolution-addressbook-export --format=csv 
file:///home/ngooneearch/.evolution/addressbook/local/1248494207 12033 0 ngoonee-laptop