Re: [Evolution] Missing contacts after upgrade

["Frederick N. Brier" <fnbrier gmail com>]

 I gained access to my addressbook by copying a backup of my .evolution directory into the home directory of a 
virtual machine that was running Fedora 11.  So I backed up the settings (File->Backup Settings) which was about 
29MB of data, scp'ed it back to my workstation and attempted to restore it to using the upgraded Evolution on 
Fedora 13.  I should mention that the upgraded Calendar and Tasks had data, just not the Contacts.  The 
File->Restore Settings menu option shutdown Evolution, but when it came back up, the data in the Calendar was 
unchanged and the Contacts were still blank.  Does this mean that data backed up under an older version of 
Evolution cannot be restored to a newer version?  Shouldn't this work?  Thank you for any help.

On 11/01/2010 01:53 AM, Frederick N. Brier wrote:
>  I used the System->Administration->Software Update to migrate from Fedora 11 to Fedora 13, both (of course) 
> x86_64.  This just seemed to be the GUI version of preupgrade.  The upgrade appears to have gone well except that 
> my Evolution Contacts are now empty.  Evolution is now at version 2.30.3-1.fc13.  I have done a fair bit of 
> googling, finding bug reports, and trying different solutions, but nothing has worked.  One of the posts suggested 
> trying to list the address books, but that seems to fail as well as show below:
>
> $ /usr/libexec/evolution/2.30/evolution-addressbook-export -l
>
> (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): libebook-WARNING **: e-book.c:2245: cannot get book from factory: 
> Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
>
> (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): evolution-addressbook-tools-WARNING **: failed to open book
>
> (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): libebook-WARNING **: e-book.c:2245: cannot get book from factory: The 
> name :1.233 was not provided by any .service files
>
> (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): evolution-addressbook-tools-WARNING **: failed to open book
>
> (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): libebook-WARNING **: e-book.c:2245: cannot get book from factory: The 
> name :1.233 was not provided by any .service files
>
> (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): evolution-addressbook-tools-WARNING **: failed to open book
> $
>
> The directory ~/.evolution/addressbook/local/system contains:
>
> addressbook.db
> addressbook.db.summary
>
> Both with the correct ownership and permissions.  Why can Evolution not find these files?  Is there anyway 
> that I can export these files?  The addressbook.db file is a version 9 Berkeley DB file.  There does not seem 
> to be a way to import a Berkley DB file into Evolution.  At this point, I just want access to my contacts, 
> even a dump to ASCII would be great.  So ANY suggestions would be welcome.  Thank you.
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