Hello, This morning I logged in, started up X, then Evolution, to discover my *entire* contact database (I just used the default 'Contacts' folder) empty (except for the default Ximian, Inc. entry).
After panicing, I remembered I had backup on my evolution directory, it was only a day old so, although I lost some contacts & notes, I was able to recover the majority. Although not without some trouble... First, I closed evolution, and tried to copy: cp -rp <evobackups>/20020801/local/Contacts <home>/evolution/local When I started up evolution, nothing changed, I still only had the Ximian, Inc. entry in the Contact folder... So I made a new contact folder called 'Work Contacts' in the "Local Folders" section, exited evolution, and: cp -p <evobackups>/20020801/local/Contacts/* <home>/evolution/local/Work\ Contacts/ This worked, I have my contacts back, with a couple side-effects. #1. When I compose a message, click 'To:' to select a contact, It defaults to the 'Contacts' folder, so I have to switch everytime to 'Work Contacts' #2. I can no longer use "nicknames" to quickly pull up an entry when composing a message, probably due to #1 Any help? BTW - I'm now doing nightly backups of my evolution directory just to be safe, I can't afford to loose my data like that again. -- Nick Jennings Technical Services Engineer Mountain View Data, Inc. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
