Following on from my earlier message I have found a fix - at least temporarily I have purged all the entries in my Calendar older than 60 days and I can now enter new appointments. The calendar was imported from an outlook PST file using 'LibPST' so my guess is that there was some entry in there that caused problems. However it is not clear why it worked from around the 20th January until around the 20th March when the error above appeared. I will update this thread if the problem reappears (hope not !) if not this may be a cure for others that have a similar problem. John Murrell
On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 14:21 +0000, John Murrell wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________evolution-list mailing > listevolution-list@gnome.orgTo change your list options or > unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
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