-----Original Message-----
From: Milan Crha via evolution-list <evolution-list@gnome.org>
Reply-To: Milan Crha <mc...@redhat.com>
To: evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Address Book not Restoring
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:27:45 +0200
On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 00:41 -0500, BC via evolution-list wrote:
> Not only no contacts, but I cannot even import older vcf files or
> csvfiles into it.
Hi,it looks like you've 3.30.5 (according to the message
headers). It'spreferred to claim what version you have, because things
get fixed (orbroken) in the time. It would be also nice to know what
version ofEvolution was in your previous installation. Being it a newer
version,the backup may not always work, due to changes in the format of
thesaved data.
I do not recall any problem with the import or the contacts in
3.30.x.When you say "cannot import", what does that mean, please? Is
there anyerror message? If not in the GUI (I think only later versions
showerrors from import in the GUI), then try to run evolution from
aterminal and see whether there's anything shown.
You did not say what address book type you use. Is it On
ThisComputer/Personal, or any remote, or...? If it's the Personal,
thencheck the contents and privileges
to ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system/contacts.dbor the
directory with that file as such. You can run the address bookfactory
(before you run Evolution) from a terminal, to see whether itprints
anything there. The command is:
$ /usr/libexec/evolution-addressbook-factory -w
though your distribution can have it installed elsewhere.
If that won't help, then there are ways to extract the contacts fromthe
database file as a .vcf and import it (possibly to a newly
createdaddressbook). I'll left this as the second step, in case the
abovewould not help.
Bye, Milan
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First
Milan,
Thank
you for your assistance. I am presently on 3.30.5-1.1. I had just
updated Debian to the latest Buster before I switched, so whatever
version of Evolution would have gone along with that. I was not smart
enough to write that down, but thought that was the purpose of regularly
running backups.
I
am using the personal address book. When I say cannot import, it
means I run the import dialogue, and it hangs for a while, longer
than it should take for less than 1mb worth to data,
and then drops the dialogue with the result being no imports.
So, I took your advice and ran evolution from terminal:
I got a TON of theme
parsing errors like this one:
(evolution:26200):
Gtk-WARNING **: 10:12:36.677: Theme parsing error:
gtk-widgets.css:186:14: not a number
...or expecting a
string
then this error:
(evolution-alarm-notify:26217):
Gtk-WARNING **: 10:12:37.826: Theme parsing error:
gtk-widgets.css:186:14: not a number
...or expecting a
string
then this error:
(WebKitWebProcess:26270):
Gtk-WARNING **: 10:12:40.681: Theme parsing error:
gtk-widgets.css:186:14: not a number
...Expected a
string.
Finally, one
possibly relevant:
(evolution:26200):
camel-WARNING **: 10:12:43.010: Could not open converter for 'CP31j'
to 'UTF-8' charset
---------
Then I tried to
import a 2 year vcf backup I had, and this time it worked? I closed
Evolution and checked terminal and saw these errors:
(evolution:26200):
evolution-util-WARNING **: 10:17:05.869: Failed to call a DBus Proxy
method org.gnome.Evolution.WebExtension::EWebViewEnsureBodyClass:
Invalid page ID: 15
(evolution:26200):
evolution-util-WARNING **: 10:17:05.869: Failed to call a DBus Proxy
method org.gnome.Evolution.WebExtension::AddCSSRuleIntoStyleSheet:
Invalid page ID: 15
(evolution:26200):
evolution-util-WARNING **: 10:17:05.869: Failed to call a DBus Proxy
method org.gnome.Evolution.WebExtension::AddCSSRuleIntoStyleSheet:
Invalid page ID: 15
Then a bunch more
theme parsing errors
Finally, this error:
(evolution:26200): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:21:08.371: Calling
org.xfce.Session.Manager.Inhibit failed:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such method
“Inhibit”
So, at least things
got a little better. But, I’d prefer NOT to lose the last 2 year’s
worth of contacts though.
Should I try uninstalling Evolution and then reinstalling it, then opening with
terminal and then restoring the backup???--
One thing I just thought of, I uninstalled thunderbird from the computer,
including lightning, when setting up my new install. Can't remember if I did
that before or after restoring Evolution.Could that possibly be a contributing
factor?
Thanks,
Barry
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