First Milan,
Thank you for your assistance. I am presently on 3.30.5-1.1. I had just updated Debian to the latest Buster before I switched, so whatever version of Evolution would have gone along with that. I was not smart enough to write that down, but thought that was the purpose of regularly running backups.
I am using the personal address book. When I say cannot import, it means I run the import dialogue, and it hangs for a while, longer than it should take for less than 1mb worth to data, and then drops the dialogue with the result being no imports.
So, I took your advice and ran evolution from terminal: I got a TON of theme parsing errors like this one: (evolution:26200): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:12:36.677: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:186:14: not a number ...or expecting a string
then this error:
(evolution-alarm-notify:26217): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:12:37.826: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:186:14: not a number ...or expecting a string
then this error:
(WebKitWebProcess:26270): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:12:40.681: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:186:14: not a number ...Expected a string.
Finally, one possibly relevant:
(evolution:26200): camel-WARNING **: 10:12:43.010: Could not open converter for 'CP31j' to 'UTF-8' charset
--------- Then I tried to import a 2 year vcf backup I had, and this time it worked? I closed Evolution and checked terminal and saw these errors:
(evolution:26200): evolution-util-WARNING **: 10:17:05.869: Failed to call a DBus Proxy method org.gnome.Evolution.WebExtension::EWebViewEnsureBodyClass: Invalid page ID: 15
(evolution:26200): evolution-util-WARNING **: 10:17:05.869: Failed to call a DBus Proxy method org.gnome.Evolution.WebExtension::AddCSSRuleIntoStyleSheet: Invalid page ID: 15
(evolution:26200): evolution-util-WARNING **: 10:17:05.869: Failed to call a DBus Proxy method org.gnome.Evolution.WebExtension::AddCSSRuleIntoStyleSheet: Invalid page ID: 15
Then a bunch more theme parsing errors
Finally, this error: (evolution:26200): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:21:08.371: Calling org.xfce.Session.Manager.Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such method “Inhibit”
So, at least things got a little better. But, I’d prefer NOT to lose the last 2 year’s worth of contacts though.
Should I try uninstalling Evolution and then reinstalling it, then opening with terminal and then restoring the backup???-- One thing I just thought of, I uninstalled thunderbird from the computer, including lightning, when setting up my new install. Can't remember if I did that before or after restoring Evolution. Could that possibly be a contributing factor? Thanks, Barry -----Original Message----- From: Milan Crha via evolution-list <evolution-list gnome org> Reply-To: Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Address Book not Restoring Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:27:45 +0200 On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 00:41 -0500, BC via evolution-list wrote: Not only no contacts, but I cannot even import older vcf files or csvfiles into it. Hi, it looks like you've 3.30.5 (according to the message headers). It's preferred to claim what version you have, because things get fixed (or broken) in the time. It would be also nice to know what version of Evolution was in your previous installation. Being it a newer version, the backup may not always work, due to changes in the format of the saved data. I do not recall any problem with the import or the contacts in 3.30.x. When you say "cannot import", what does that mean, please? Is there any error message? If not in the GUI (I think only later versions show errors from import in the GUI), then try to run evolution from a terminal and see whether there's anything shown. You did not say what address book type you use. Is it On This Computer/Personal, or any remote, or...? If it's the Personal, then check the contents and privileges to ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system/contacts.db or the directory with that file as such. You can run the address book factory (before you run Evolution) from a terminal, to see whether it prints anything there. The command is: $ /usr/libexec/evolution-addressbook-factory -w though your distribution can have it installed elsewhere. If that won't help, then there are ways to extract the contacts from the database file as a .vcf and import it (possibly to a newly created addressbook). I'll left this as the second step, in case the above would not help. Bye, Milan _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list gnome org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list |