I am trying to migrate to Evolution on Linux Mint. But the handling of contacts is very problematic and time consuming.
I tried multiple times to import vcf files to Evolution's default "Personal" address book, and it failed every time. Eventually I created a new address book, and the imports worked every time. The problem is that all of the imports to "Personal" failed silently, and I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out what was wrong with my vcf files. Turns out that my installed Evolution application was failing because I was selecting the "Personal" address book. Once I created a new address book, all my vcf files imported fine. I checked the evolution-list Archives and fund the following two posts. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2004-May/msg00371.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2012-December/msg00103.html Failing silently without any feedback to the user makes it extremely difficult for new users to migrate to Evolution. Either this is a longstanding problem which is being ignored, or I have something very quirky with my setup. My configuration: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia, base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic Kernel: 5.3.0-51-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.5.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 Evolution: 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 Mike --- _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
