Re: [Evolution] Missing contacts after upgrade

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Freitag, den 05.11.2010, 01:14 -0400 schrieb Frederick N. Brier:
> I gained access to my addressbook by copying a backup of my .evolution directory into the home directory of 
> a virtual machine that was running Fedora 11.  So I backed up the settings (File->Backup Settings) which 
> was about 29MB of data, scp'ed it back to my workstation and attempted to restore it to using the upgraded 
> Evolution on Fedora 13.  I should mention that the upgraded Calendar and Tasks had data, just not the 
> Contacts.  The File->Restore Settings menu option shutdown Evolution, but when it came back up, the data in 
> the Calendar was unchanged and the Contacts were still blank.  Does this mean that data backed up under an 
> older version of Evolution cannot be restored to a newer version?  Shouldn't this work?  Thank you for any 
> help.
>
> On 11/01/2010 01:53 AM, Frederick N. Brier wrote:
> >  I used the System->Administration->Software Update to migrate from Fedora 11 to Fedora 13, both (of 
> > course) x86_64.  This just seemed to be the GUI version of preupgrade.  The upgrade appears to have gone 
> > well except that my Evolution Contacts are now empty.  Evolution is now at version 2.30.3-1.fc13.  I have 
> > done a fair bit of googling, finding bug reports, and trying different solutions, but nothing has worked. 
> >  One of the posts suggested trying to list the address books, but that seems to fail as well as show 
> > below:
> >
> > $ /usr/libexec/evolution/2.30/evolution-addressbook-export -l
> >
> > (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): libebook-WARNING **: e-book.c:2245: cannot get book from factory: 
> > Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
> >
> > (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): evolution-addressbook-tools-WARNING **: failed to open book
> >
> > (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): libebook-WARNING **: e-book.c:2245: cannot get book from factory: 
> > The name :1.233 was not provided by any .service files
> >
> > (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): evolution-addressbook-tools-WARNING **: failed to open book
> >
> > (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): libebook-WARNING **: e-book.c:2245: cannot get book from factory: 
> > The name :1.233 was not provided by any .service files
> >
> > (evolution-addressbook-export:8690): evolution-addressbook-tools-WARNING **: failed to open book
> > $
> >
> > The directory ~/.evolution/addressbook/local/system contains:
> >
> > addressbook.db
> > addressbook.db.summary
> >
> > Both with the correct ownership and permissions.  Why can Evolution not find these files?  Is there 
> > anyway that I can export these files?  The addressbook.db file is a version 9 Berkeley DB file.  There 
> > does not seem to be a way to import a Berkley DB file into Evolution.  At this point, I just want access 
> > to my contacts, even a dump to ASCII would be great.  So ANY suggestions would be welcome.  Thank you.
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See thread on this list titled: "Re: [Evolution] learning to compile,
need help with finding dependecies in Ubuntu 10.04":

I would suggest to you to try to build the gnome-2-32 branch, but using
a more direct approach than the above Makefile.

More at:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2010-November/msg00004.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2010-November/msg00005.html

-- 
thomas