You should not remove ME or NEXTID. ME is a symbolic link to your
vCard, and without it the address book will not be able to work out
which entry corresponds to you. NEXTID contains the number of the
next card to create. Without it, you may encounter difficulties when
you next create an address book entry.
The one called LOCK is used to get exclusive access to the address
book and is sometimes left lying around when AddressManager breaks
(which is distressingly often).
David
On 13 Mar 2008, at 21:59, Gerold Rupprecht wrote:
Dear readers,
I ran out of disk space while I had GNUMail and AddressManager open. I
had been editing a person when I realized I had a problem, being
unable to save my changes.
I cleaned up the disk space problem first.
I then looked for where the database information is stored. You will
find it under:
~/GNUstep/Library/Addresses
(you may want to add this to your backup scripts)
The database stores each entry in a separate file named along the
lines of:
99.mfaddr
I also found three other files:
LOCK
ME
NEXTID
I removed these files and was then again able to make changes to the
person record I had been editing.
Hope this might be helpful to other users.
Best regards,
Gerold
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