Milan, STILL at this. I reinstalled the entire OS, made sure to update it completely. Installed Evolution newly. Imported. Got only the emails.
I did manage to extract the contacts.db file. I installed sqlite3. I ran this: sqlite3 ~/media/me/Backup/EvolutionDataandFirefoxProfileBackup/addressbook/syste m/contacts.db \ ”SELECT vcard FROM folder_id”>contacts.ics -----Original Message----- From: Milan Crha via evolution-list <[email protected]> Reply-To: Milan Crha <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Evolution] Address Book not Restoring Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 19:01:23 +0200 On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 10:31 -0500, BC wrote: > thought that was the purpose of regularly running backups. Hi,that's true. What I've been trying to figure out whether, for somereason, you'd not downgrade the evolution version by changing thedistribution. That would make it hard to restore from a backup, becausethe code know the past, not the future (aka when the internal formatchanges, the past code doesn't know what to do, while the new code knowwhat to do with the old data format to upgrade it to the new dataformat). > Should I try uninstalling Evolution and then reinstalling it, > thenopening withterminal and then restoring the backup???-- Oh. That's a good news, I hope. Does it fail with the recent backup?The warnings from console about CSS and gtk and the like are allunrelated. > One thing I just thought of, I uninstalled thunderbird from > thecomputer, including lightning, when setting up my new > install. Can'tremember if I did that before or after restoring > Evolution.Could that possibly be a contributing factor? No, I do not think so. The two applications are completely independent. When you check the content of the Evolution's backup file, it containsan evolution.dir file, which has stored what version the Evolution waswhen the backup had been created. The backup itself has similarstructure as described here: https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/data-storage.html Thus you can,e ventually, restore the files manually. The only problemis to have all evolution-related processes closed when playing with theinternal files, which is not always possible (as for example GNOMEShell keeps restarting evolution-calendar-factory, which runs otherbackground processes). You can eventually run: $ evolution --force-shutdown and then verify the processes are down: $ ps ax | grep evolution and/or run the force-shutdown also after manual restore. How to extract only contacts from the sqlite3 database you can find atthe end of: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2015-October/msg00089.html That might be easier than to restore everything. You just need to pointsqlite3 to the correct database file (from the backup file). And todelete old contacts in the target address book. Hope it helps, Milan _______________________________________________evolution-list mailing [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list I got this: Error: unable to open database "/root/media/me/Backup/EvolutionDataandFirefoxProfileBackup/addressbook/system/contacts.db": unable to open database file-- I'm at a complete loss. Can I just SEND you the db file, which is a little over 1.1mb and let you send me back the ICS FILE??? Barry
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