Re: [Evolution] Contact files

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Wed, 2018-09-05 at 09:23 -0500, bernoot wrote:
>  I need to recover the evolution contacts from a computer after it crashed
> badly (soaked, actually).
>  I was able to extract the hard disk and backup all files, but I cannot run
> the system (btw, it was ubuntu 16.04) and softs any more, so I cannot save
> the contact list using the normal procedure. Is there a (list of) file(s) I
> could simply copy-paste into another system / user account to get the
> contacts?
>  I tried with all the files named contact* and addressbook*, but it does not
> seem to work.

You don't mention software versions, but
https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/data-storage.html
should be a high-level overview. By default, the databases are under
~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/*/contacts.db in 3.28.

Not sure if any magic in the registry settings (dconf) is involved -
from a quick glance I can only see a value for the default address book
in there.

andre
-- 
Andre Klapper  |  ak-47 gmx net
https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/