[Evolution] "Unable to open address book" on half of local address books.

2012-03-17 Thread Nick Jenkins
Hi all, Sometime after I upgraded from Evo 2.32 to Evo 3.2.2, I noticed that there are some local address books that I could no longer view. Specifically, when clicking on them, it doesn't show any contacts, but it shows the following error message in red: -

[Evolution] loss of data in spite of Backup

2012-03-17 Thread tgralke
Hello together, many thanks for the link to the location of regular data. Now I try to create my own "evo-backup-archive" with tar on console from these directories. I hope to import them as backup from elder versions option. With best regards, Torsten. -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden

[Evolution] evolution is not reliable

2012-03-17 Thread tgralke
Hello together, after new installation evolution didn't recover old data from backuped folders. Created "*.tar.gz"-files didn't work. Even older evolution-created files did not recreate my folder structure and restored old data. Now everything is lost... My opinion: do not use evolution for p

Re: [Evolution] loss of data in spite of Backup

2012-03-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Now I try to create my own "evo-backup-archive" with tar on > console from these directories. > I hope to import them as backup from elder versions option. > Are you saying that you are manually tar'ing up files from an old version of Evo and expecting to be able to restore those tar files u

Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable

2012-03-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> after new installation evolution didn't recover > old data from backuped folders. > > Created "*.tar.gz"-files didn't work. > > Even older evolution-created files did not recreate > my folder structure and restored old data. > > Now everything is lost... > > My opinion: do not use evolution

Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable

2012-03-17 Thread Torsten Gralke
Hello Pete, yes, when evolution is running it is a comfortable tool for email, calendar, adress and notes. I loved it, to be honest. But now, after crashed harddisk and several succesless tries to recover data from "/home-backup" I'm a bit disappointed. I tried copying folders, created compres

Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable

2012-03-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> > But now, after crashed harddisk and several succesless tries > to recover data from "/home-backup" I'm a bit disappointed. > > I tried copying folders, created compressed backups manually, > but nothing did work ! That sort of thing is unlikely to work unless you really know the internals o

Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable

2012-03-17 Thread Torsten Gralke
Hello Pete, thanks a lot for your advise ! But i guess I'm too lazy to follow your advise... Could you perhaps create a shell-script that would does that automatically and would help any other people with same problem ? Guess you would be a hero if this script would work from scratch ! With