On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 16:48 +0100, edmund wrote:
> -------------------------
> Unable to open address book
>
> This address book cannot be opened. Please check that the
> path /home/ed/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system-address-book
> exists and that permissions are set to access it.
>
> Detailed error message: Unable to connect to 'Personal': Error
> introspecting unknown summary field 'file_as_localized'
>
Hi,
it seems to me that you took a backup from a newer evolution and
restored it in an older evolution. There had been done some changes in
the stored format in contacts between the two versions, which results
in that "Detailed error message".
You cannot restore your contacts this way, the internal format change
doesn't allow to restore from the newer evolution. What you can do is
to use certain command line tools and restore your contacts by an
import. That might be done this way:
a) close evolution and make sure evolution-addressbook-factory process
is not running (possibly kill it, when it's shown in `ps ax | grep
evolution`)
b) extract the contacts from the too new database:
$ sqlite3
/home/ed/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system-address-book/contacts.db
"SELECT VCARD from folder_id;">contacts.vcf
By the way, I have it stored at ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system/.
c) move away the folder:
/home/ed/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system-address-book
thus evolution will recreate it the next start
d) run evolution, switch to Contacts view and check you can select
the On This Computer/Personal addressbook; it will be shown empty,
but you will be able to select it and no error will be shown
e) from menu: File->Import->Single file->select the contacts.vcf
from step b), the vCard format will be chosen for you; click Next,
select On This Computer/Personal, then continue till the import
wizard will not finish.
After this the Personal address book will show the contacts as before.
Hope it helps,
Milan
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