On 03.06.11,19:42, Michael wrote:
> I don't know who else to turn to about this problem other than mutt users.
> I have been adding phone numbers, addresses, comments, etc to abook.
> Every so often when I start abook, everything is deleted but name and
> email address. Not one more item.
> Since this started, I've been keeping backups for when this happens,
> so everything isn't lost.
> I have looked at the good and bad (missing extra info), and everything
> looks fine. Format is fine, even checking the beginning and ending of
> file. I've also used "diff -y addressbook addressbook.backup and they
> are virtually the same for name and email. Just all the info about
> phone numbers, addresses, etc is missing on the bad file
>
> I've used abook for quite some time but never seen this happen till I
> started adding the extra info.
>
> Anybody with understanding of abook is welcome to email me since this
> isn't directly related to mutt.
>
You can check in ~/.abook/abookrc if you have your index_format variable
correctly set. F.ex. mine has this setting to show the fields I want in
the abook interface:
set index_format=" {name:25} {email:30} {nick:5} {workphone:-12}
{mobile:-12} {title:20} {notes} "
Jostein
