I was able to recover my contacts. I discovered that the old (Hardy- era) addressbook.db appeared to be using Berkeley DB version 7, while the current version of Evolution appeared to be using version 9. I installed the db4.6-util package and then did:
evolution --force-shutdown cd ~/.evolution/addressbook/local/system db4.6_dump addressbook.db > blah.txt mv addressbook.db addressbook.db.backup cat blah.txt | db4.6_load addressbook.db After this, the addressbook.db was now in version 9 format and I was able to see my contacts in Evolution. -- evolution contacts are lost on upgrade to [8.10] RC https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289686 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
