Re: [Evolution] Address Book not Restoring

[BC <bcreighton runbox com>]

Milan,

STILL at this. I reinstalled the entire OS, made sure to update it completely. Installed Evolution newly. Imported. Got only the emails.

I did manage to extract the contacts.db file.  

I installed sqlite3.

I ran this: 

sqlite3 ~/media/me/Backup/EvolutionDataandFirefoxProfileBackup/addressbook/system/contacts.db \ ”SELECT vcard FROM folder_id”>contacts.ics

I got this:

Error:
unable to open database
"/root/media/me/Backup/EvolutionDataandFirefoxProfileBackup/addressbook/system/contacts.db":
unable to open database file-- 

I'm at a complete loss. Can I just SEND you the db file, which is a little over 1.1mb and let you send me back the ICS FILE???

Barry

-----Original Message-----

From: Milan Crha via evolution-list <evolution-list gnome org>

Reply-To: Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>

To: evolution-list gnome org

Subject: Re: [Evolution] Address Book not Restoring

Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 19:01:23 +0200

On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 10:31 -0500, BC wrote:

thought that was the purpose of regularly running backups.

	Hi,

that's true. What I've been trying to figure out whether, for some

reason, you'd not downgrade the evolution version by changing the

distribution. That would make it hard to restore from a backup, because

the code know the past, not the future (aka when the internal format

changes, the past code doesn't know what to do, while the new code know

what to do with the old data format to upgrade it to the new data

format).

Should I try uninstalling Evolution and then reinstalling it, then

opening with

terminal and then restoring the backup???-- 

Oh. That's a good news, I hope. Does it fail with the recent backup?

The warnings from console about CSS and gtk and the like are all

unrelated.

One thing I just thought of, I uninstalled thunderbird from the

computer, including lightning, when setting up my new install.  Can't

remember if I did that before or after restoring Evolution.

Could that possibly be a contributing factor?

No, I do not think so. The two applications are completely independent.

When you check the content of the Evolution's backup file, it contains

an evolution.dir file, which has stored what version the Evolution was

when the backup had been created. The backup itself has similar

structure as described here:

https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/data-storage.html

Thus you can,e ventually, restore the files manually. The only problem

is to have all evolution-related processes closed when playing with the

internal files, which is not always possible (as for example GNOME

Shell keeps restarting evolution-calendar-factory, which runs other

background processes). You can eventually run:

    $ evolution --force-shutdown

and then verify the processes are down:

    $ ps ax | grep evolution

and/or run the force-shutdown also after manual restore.

How to extract only contacts from the sqlite3 database you can find at

the end of:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2015-October/msg00089.html

That might be easier than to restore everything. You just need to point

sqlite3 to the correct database file (from the backup file). And to

delete old contacts in the target address book.

	Hope it helps,

	Milan

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