On Sat 04.Jun.11 22:51, Jostein Berntsen 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} "

I, too, had never used an abookrc file. I created one, but when I add
the index_format line it gives me an error:
   abookrc: parse error at line 57: unknown option

I'm using abook 0.5.6-7+b1 on Debian sid. I checked the manpage for
abookrc and don't see that option mentioned either. How did you get it
to work?

Dan

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