Hi, You have all the addressbook.db files back up right? Are you able to access your personal book, and only the sub folders are failing? can you just backup your .evolution/addressbook and re-create the folders and place these db files under the directories created for the new sub folders in .evolution/addressbook/local/ (referring to gconf keys).?
Thanks, Sushma. On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 11:59 +0200, Miguel Decleire wrote: > This was very helpful to understand the situation. But so far, I can't > say that I managed to get the data back... > As you say, the new values get overwritten after logout and back in > gnome, but the numbers of the group uid and source uid of the "Personal" > addressbook have grown higher in the rewriting (and so for example, a > small sub addressbook which had before a "greater" number than the > "Personal", now has a "smaller" one. Maybe it is for that reason that it > has been wiped out of the sources file, and maybe it is why gnome keeps > overwriting the file?...) > I re-edited the sources file, tried to export it as you proposed by > doing gconftool-2 --dump etc., went in tty1, shut down gconfd-2 by ps ax > | grep gconf, imported the settings by gconftool-2 --load the-file.xml, > got back in tty7, restarted the session from there, but then evolution > wouldn't start. I got back the previous %gconf.xml file (the name of the > file in nautilus and bash), and got evolution running again. > I guess I made some writing mistake somewhere, but might the id numbers > and their order in the sources file have something to do? Might the > rewriting of the numbers get it right again, or would that mess the > whole thing up? > Maybe I should work outside of gnome altogether, but my fragmentary > gnu/linux education hinders me a bit to do it (I'm a sort of long term > newbie, still uneasy with vim...) > > > > Is there some workaround to access the db? It seems it's a Berkeley db > > > file. Would the Berkeley DB software from sleepycat help to at least be > > > able to read the data at least in some text mode? > > > > don't know, i've only seen comments so far that it's very hard to handle > > the db with external apps - if you succeed, please let me know. > > Sounds encouraging. Well, maybe I'll try later... ;-) > > Thanks again. > > Miguel > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
