How to rescue Evolution Contacts?

Amsicora · #1 6th October 2009, 06:32 PM

I am a Fedora 11 user and, being curious of it, I installed openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8 after saving my previous /home (Fedora 11) in a FAT32 partition.
I deleted Fedora, I installed openSUSE, and I copied the .evolution folder from FAT32 to openSUSE home.
Inbox and Sent mail were correctly recognized, but not the account data neither the contact list.
Any idea how to import my buddy list?
Thanks in advance!!

**AdamW** · #2 6th October 2009, 07:46 PM

you also need to copy the gconf settings (~/.gconf/apps/evolution ) and ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution .

Amsicora · #3 6th October 2009, 07:55 PM

I did it now. But the problem persists. I also did

chmod -R 777 .evolution

but nothing changed

finnmetal · #4 7th October 2009, 11:22 AM

not only what AdamW said but these are also the complete steps to backup evolution and import account informations

http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#How_...p_evolution.3F

***Dangermouse*** · #5 7th October 2009, 11:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by finnmetal

not only what AdamW said but these are also the complete steps to backup evolution and import account informations

http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#How_...p_evolution.3F

Evolution now has it own backup built in just click on file>backup you shouldnt need to copy any files etc...

Amsicora · #6 7th October 2009, 11:39 AM

Thanks finmetal
But doing so, i would loose some (important) mail i sent from the new installation.
Is there a way (e.g. a third-party utility) to convert the old addressbook.db file in another format, e.g. v-card or ldif, and then importing again into evolution?

edit: thanks dangermouse, i knew that, but i thought i could copying the folder in a painless way :-)

**AdamW** · #7 8th October 2009, 10:47 PM

dangermouse: I left that out because I figured he didn't actually have the original install he's migrating from any more.

anyway, this whole thread is just another nice illustration of why it's a good idea to run your own mail server =)

Amsicora · #8 26th October 2009, 03:07 PM

Hi people,
sorry for delay. I solved just replacing a contact listed i already backed-up few days before. I just loose few contacts, but it's ok.
Next time I will use the back-up tool, rather than exporting the whole .evolution folder!
Cheers.