Sorry, let me correctly state that the file address matched. Trying to handle phone call and this at same time. Command: root@me:/media/drivename/Backup I/Evolution Data and Firefox Profile Backup/addressbook/system# sqlite3 /media/drivename/Backup I/Evolution Data and Firefox Profile Backup/addressbook/system/contacts.db \"SELECT vcard From folder_id">contacts.ics -- Barry -----Original Message----- From: BC via evolution-list <evolution-list gnome org> Reply-To: bcreighton runbox com To: Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>, evolution-list gnome org Subject: Re: [Evolution] Address Book not Restoring Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:23:14 -0500 Milan, OK, I extracted the contacts DB on my backup drive. I deleted all of the contacts from my email system. I had to install sqlite3, and then ran the command. I got the ">" prompt and nothing else? Not sure what to do with that. Command: root@me:/media/drivename/Backup I/Evolution Data and Firefox Profile Backup/addressbook/system# sqlite3 /media/Ben/Backup I/Evolution Data and Firefox Profile Backup/addressbook/system/contacts.db \"SELECT vcard From folder_id">contacts.ics >
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 19:01:23 +0200 On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 10:31 -0500, BC wrote: thought that was the purpose of regularly running backups. Hi, that's true. What I've been trying to figure out whether, for some reason, you'd not downgrade the evolution version by changing the distribution. That would make it hard to restore from a backup, because the code know the past, not the future (aka when the internal format changes, the past code doesn't know what to do, while the new code know what to do with the old data format to upgrade it to the new data format). Should I try uninstalling Evolution and then reinstalling it, thenopening withterminal and then restoring the backup???-- Oh. That's a good news, I hope. Does it fail with the recent backup? The warnings from console about CSS and gtk and the like are all unrelated. One thing I just thought of, I uninstalled thunderbird from thecomputer, including lightning, when setting up my new install. Can'tremember if I did that before or after restoring Evolution.Could that possibly be a contributing factor? No, I do not think so. The two applications are completely independent. When you check the content of the Evolution's backup file, it contains an evolution.dir file, which has stored what version the Evolution was when the backup had been created. The backup itself has similar structure as described here: https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/data-storage.html Thus you can,e ventually, restore the files manually. The only problem is to have all evolution-related processes closed when playing with the internal files, which is not always possible (as for example GNOME Shell keeps restarting evolution-calendar-factory, which runs other background processes). You can eventually run: $ evolution --force-shutdown and then verify the processes are down: $ ps ax | grep evolution and/or run the force-shutdown also after manual restore. How to extract only contacts from the sqlite3 database you can find at the end of: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2015-October/msg00089.html That might be easier than to restore everything. You just need to point sqlite3 to the correct database file (from the backup file). And to delete old contacts in the target address book. Hope it helps, 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 _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list gnome org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list |