On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 10:58:42 +0100 Milan Crha <mc...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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. Well actually it is the other way around, old backup restored in a newer version. I had similar problems before and that is why I ditched evolution now I try it again an see no improvement. Import export tools that don't work are bugs in my opinion. > 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. Thanks a lot I will try that. I hope the evolution coders realize some time that they have to make sure the import export tools must be working and not change it in every release or update. > > Hope it helps, > Milan Edmund > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
