On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Jostein Berntsen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
Thanks Jostein. I checked my .abook directory on Slackware and Debian and don't have an abookrc in either system. I'll look into building one or downloading one from the net. I was thinking that I would have to try mysql even though I don't know a thing about it. b
