Am Freitag, den 05.11.2010, 01:14 -0400 schrieb Frederick N. Brier: > I gained access to my addressbook by copying a backup of my .evolution > directory into the home directory of a virtual machine that was running > Fedora 11. So I backed up the settings (File->Backup Settings) which was > about 29MB of data, scp'ed it back to my workstation and attempted to restore > it to using the upgraded Evolution on Fedora 13. I should mention that the > upgraded Calendar and Tasks had data, just not the Contacts. The > File->Restore Settings menu option shutdown Evolution, but when it came back > up, the data in the Calendar was unchanged and the Contacts were still blank. > Does this mean that data backed up under an older version of Evolution > cannot be restored to a newer version? Shouldn't this work? Thank you for > any help. > > On 11/01/2010 01:53 AM, Frederick N. Brier wrote: > > I used the System->Administration->Software Update to migrate from Fedora > > 11 to Fedora 13, both (of course) x86_64. This just seemed to be the GUI > > version of preupgrade. The upgrade appears to have gone well except that > > my Evolution Contacts are now empty. Evolution is now at version > > 2.30.3-1.fc13. I have done a fair bit of googling, finding bug reports, > > and trying different solutions, but nothing has worked. One of the posts > > suggested trying to list the address books, but that seems to fail as well > > as show below: > > > > $ /usr/libexec/evolution/2.30/evolution-addressbook-export -l > > > > (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): libebook-WARNING **: e-book.c:2245: > > cannot get book from factory: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by > > message bus) > > > > (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): evolution-addressbook-tools-WARNING > > **: failed to open book > > > > (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): libebook-WARNING **: e-book.c:2245: > > cannot get book from factory: The name :1.233 was not provided by any > > .service files > > > > (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): evolution-addressbook-tools-WARNING > > **: failed to open book > > > > (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): libebook-WARNING **: e-book.c:2245: > > cannot get book from factory: The name :1.233 was not provided by any > > .service files > > > > (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): evolution-addressbook-tools-WARNING > > **: failed to open book > > $ > > > > The directory ~/.evolution/addressbook/local/system contains: > > > > addressbook.db > > addressbook.db.summary > > > > Both with the correct ownership and permissions. Why can Evolution not > > find these files? Is there anyway that I can export these files? The > > addressbook.db file is a version 9 Berkeley DB file. There does not seem > > to be a way to import a Berkley DB file into Evolution. At this point, I > > just want access to my contacts, even a dump to ASCII would be great. So > > ANY suggestions would be welcome. Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
See thread on this list titled: "Re: [Evolution] learning to compile, need help with finding dependecies in Ubuntu 10.04": I would suggest to you to try to build the gnome-2-32 branch, but using a more direct approach than the above Makefile. More at: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2010-November/msg00004.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2010-November/msg00005.html -- thomas _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
