Re: [Evolution] Contacts not showing up

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 19:52 -0500, Paul B. via evolution-list wrote:
> I'm running Ev 3.30.5-1.1 on MX Linux (Debian Buster).

        Hi,
first of all, you are probably aware of it, the 3.30.5 is very old. The
current stable version is 3.38.2.

> I just found that most of my contacts are not showing in the program.

I do not recall whether there had been any such thing reported and/or
addressed between your and the current version. Neither I've an idea
what precisely could break here. You can try to run the address book
factory from a terminal, which may or may not show any hints. Try this:
a) open a terminal
b) run: evolution --force-shutdown
c) run: /usr/libexec/evolution-addressbook-factory -w
   the actual path can differ in your distribution
d) open another terminal and run: evolution

Check output on both terminals.

> They show as empty lines in List View

The empty lines are suspicious. I doubt you've any filters enabled.
Maybe you can also try to switch the view to the Mini Card view,
instead of the List View, which can be done in the View->Current View
menu.

> I would delete this address book and start over with a new one, but I
> don't even see how to do that.

I suppose we speak about On This Computer/Personal address book. That
cannot be deleted. You can remove its data from:
~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system/
after step b) above (when the addressbook factory process is down) to
start from scratch. After touching this private data make sure you
restart the factory, by the same step b) from above.

        Bye,
        Milan