you are the hero! 173 contacts saved! would have taken me ages to recreate, from now on i will make vcard backups of it :D
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 17:32, guenther wrote: > > i played with multisync, and it syncs, but duplicates, not a big deal, i > > just removed the duplicates, but that showed up to be deleting > > everything, as it showed them twice only, and it synced my workstation > > like that too, so now i have no contacts, i though "ok, i will just look > > at my backup archive", i made a bzip2 of my ~/evolution. in that dir i > > see local/contacts, and there are some files there, but it doesent work > > just to copy them from my bzip2 into ~/evolution. why? is it saved in > > gconf? how do i recover? (if its possible) > > Before extracting the files to ~/evolution/local/Contacts you have to > kill the background task as well. Close Evolution and run > > $ evolution --force-shutdown > > Then extract you backed up addressbook.db. > > ...guenther -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
