On 05.06.11,11:31, Dan McDaniel wrote:
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> 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
Here is an extract of my configured variables. Check that you have them
set somewhat like this:
view CONTACT = name, email, title, notes, nicki
view ADDRESS = address_lines, city, state, zip, country
view PHONE = phone, workphone, mobile, fax
view OTHER = url, birthday
set autosave=true
set preserve_fields=all
set show_all_emails=true
set index_format=" {name:25} {email:30} {nick:5} {workphone:-12} {mobile:-12}
{title:20} {notes} "
set mutt_command=mutt
set mutt_return_all_emails=true
set print_command=lpr
set www_command=lynx
set address_style=eu
set use_ascii_only=false
set add_email_prevent_duplicates=true
set sort_field=nick
set show_cursor=true
Jostein
