On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 14:23 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote: > On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 11:55 +0100, John Murrell wrote:Exporting to a > vCard sounds like the way to go but I don't think I can delete my > contacts as this is greyed out. > Hi,I didn't mean to delete the address book, I meant to delete > only thecontacts in it (aka select the book, then click on one of the > contacts,then in menu Edit->Select All, followed by Edit->Delete > Contact). Youcan also create a new local address book and try to > import yourmodified contacts there first, to verify the imported bits > will lookproperly. I exported my contacts to a VCard file and then deleted all my contacts as suggested - select all then delete. I tried to create a new appointment but still get the Invalid Object error even with no contacts. I then cleaned the VCF file using a text editor to delete all the BDAYS * Anniversary dated 9999 and reloaded it and I still get the same error. The file looks clean now with no 1/1/9999 dates. I have tried with and without 'Birthdays & Anniversary selected and it makes no difference - Birthdays no longer show if the box is ticked or not unlike last night when I could turn them on & off using the tick box. The only way to get the Birthdays to show is to re-enable the 'Evolution Accounts - Address Book Properties On this Computer - Personal there is a tickbox Use in Birthdays & Anniversaries calendar.' See below for my 'cure' last night that has now failed again. > > If it is related to time zones could it have been triggered by the > USSummer time change even though I am in the UK ? (UK have not > changedto Summer Time Yet) > I guess (and hope) not. The code I've been referring to is not > calledduring the calendar open, thus it should not influence the > openbehavior. > FYI - not sure if it a 'bug' but in the contacts list view the > year'9999' shows as '99' so could be confused with 1999 > That is derived from your locale. You can change the format inEdit- > >Preferences->Contacts->Date/Time format, at the very top of > theGeneral tab. > I suspect there is a bit of a hole in the software as normally itdoes > not allow you to enter a date in the future for Birthdays - notsure > about anniversaries ? > There is a difference between content validation when user edits > thecontact in the GUI and between contact import. The check on edit > triesto avoid user mistakes. The import expects valid data.
I mentioned in an earlier message that I had solved the problem by 'I have stumbled on a cure In Evolution Accounts - Address Book Properties On this Computer - Personal there is a tickbox Use in Birthdays & Anniversaries calendar.' This worked ok last night but by this morning the error had returned.
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