Hi Andrew I've been caught like that before so I was very careful and made sure I copies the .evolution file.
By replacing the new .evolution with the old one I expected everything to comeback. Most things did (mail, tasks, most contacts) but those contacts in some sub-directories just went! Looking in the .evolution file there seems to be no indication of where the sub-directories are kept. In the addresses directory there are a lot of directories with [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I am using FC3 so this local domain etc is a product of that). I can't work out what is in the addresses.db that these directories contain. There is also a System directory which also contains an addresses.db. Again. I cannot open this and have no idea what this contains. All very confusing and frustrating. I've searched the knowledge base and the Novell Forum to no avail. Sorry for this tale of woe. I've gotten a bit frustrated by losing about 100 contacts. Dave On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 23:38 +1100, Andrew Greig wrote: > Dave Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I needed to re-install FC3 and so backed up my home directory, did a > clean re-install, moved my home directory back to its original location > and expected Evolution to pick up where it left off. This is Evolution > 2. > > Hi Dave, > > I had a similar problem, but I caused it myself. Because I had another Linux > computer handy I "Copied" the home directory across to that notebook so that > I could repartition the desktop. That done I copied it all back again and > got the surprise that perhaps has afflicted you. Because I was in haste I > did not tar the /home/andrew directory, as a consequence the .evolution > folder was not included in my "backup" and of course had nothing in it after > starting Evo again as it just wrote a new (empty) one. Perhaps you still > have a copy of an evolution folder from 1.4.6 kicking around that will give > you most of your contacts > > > Hope so > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution Dave Smith Struggle - Solidarity - Socialism E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (868) 683-5305 _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
