Gunther, I did solve the problem. Thank goodness I did backup my home directory before I switched to FC3.
I spent hours trying to figure this out. I finally, out of desperation and things getting progressively worse, I reformatted my system (yes the whole thing) and reinstalled FC2. I then restored my backed up home directory. After which I reinstalled FC3 and Evolution converted the old data from V1.4 to 2.02. Since this is a home PC the total loss (besides all the time) was a weeks worth of email. Guess I have been a Linux newbe for 3 years now. :( Someday things will start to click (I hope). Thanks for responding. I am printing your note for future reference! Jim On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 14:35 +0100, guenther wrote: > > After having installed FC3 over FC2 the first time I synced my Palm > > with Evolution my calendar and contacts have become corrupted. I > > have duplicate address entries of everyone and many duplicate calendar > > entries. I wish I could say that it happened on only one location but > > my palm now has the same problem. Also, the contacts have some of the > > data jumbled (in one John Doe I have a home phone number and the other > > John Doe the number is in the office phone number). It is quite a > > mess! > > > > Is there a way to delete the E2.0.2 data and recover my data from the > > prior version's data that I saved? If so, what would the procedure > > be? Which files do I need to delete and how do I extract the data > > from the old files (what are they named and where are they)? I tried > > to do a file search looking for someone's name but found nothing. > > "Prior versions data"? You mean, the Evolution 1.4 data? > > Then yes, it is possible to get those data back, if you backed it up. > > Basically, you can overwrite the current (2.0.x) Address Book data with > the old 1.4.x data. Make backups before messing with this! Paranoia > safes your day. > > > Stop all Evolution processes by running 'evolution --force-shutdown'. > Then copy your old addressbook.db file from ~/evolution (I don't > remember the exact path) to the new location: > ~/.evolution/addressbook/local/system/addressbook.db > > Start Evo again. This should work. > > > If you don't feel like overwriting the default Address Book, you should > even be able to create a new (empty) Address Book and copy your old data > there. > > To prevent data loss in case this bug strikes again, you can export your > Address Book to a vCard file and import it at any time. > > > FWIW: If you encounter dupes only, there is a 'dedupe' (or similar) tool > to delete dupes on the palm. > > HTH > > ...guenther > > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
