Re: [Evolution] Deadly Upgrade

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend schinstad gmail com>]

On 28 November 2010 22:24, Kip Warner <kip thevertigo com> wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> I just upgraded Evolution this morning from 2.30.3-1ubuntu7.1 to
> 2.32.1-0ubuntu1~ppa0. I did this by shutting down Evolution, letting
> aptitude pull and install the packages, and then started it up again. I
> noticed ALL of my ENTIRE address book, calendar, tasks, and memo are
> gone.
>
> When I opened up the address book, I get the following:
>
>        Unable to open address book
>
>        This address book cannot be opened.  Please check that the
>        path /home/kip/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system exists
>        and that permissions are set to access it.
>
>        Detailed error message: Invalid source
>
> If I look in the calendar, memos, or tasks, they are all just empty.
>
> If I look in /home/kip/.local/share/evolution/{addressbook, calendar,
> memos, tasks}, they are all just empty folders now.

Evolution 2.30 in Ubuntu (10.04) doesn't save its stuff in
~/.local/share/evolution, but in ~/evolution. I don't know if other
things than the location of data has changed. The safest way to get
your data back, would probably be to load Evolution 2.30 (from a
bootable memory stick, for instance) and export your data in
Evolution. Then you can import it in 2.32.

You can also try to just copy the ~/.evolution folder to
~/.local/share/evolution and see if that works. I don't _think_ it
would do any harm.

Jo-Erlend Schinstad