The list usually has one or two high-strung,<div>nervous types who believe everyone else is</div><div>an idiot. These come and go. I wouldn't</div><div>extend this to the whole list however. It's</div><div>often the case in real world that one has to</div>
<div>bare the neck a little, in a show of submission,</div><div>before a stronger member helps a weaker one.</div><div>But more often than not one does get good</div><div>help and suggestions here, even if there can</div>
<div>be a small price - maybe just a small lecture.</div><div> </div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Eric Beversluis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org" target="_blank">ebever@researchintegration.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 13:38 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:<br>
> On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 05:55 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:<br>
> > Update: I was able to complete the upgrade from the Fedora 17 live cd. A<br>
> > real hassle, though, needing to do a fresh install. Evolution in<br>
> > particular is a pain. After restoring my home directory, I opened<br>
> > Evolution, which then proceeded, as nearly as I can tell, with<br>
> > overwriting my old Evo data in .local/share/evolution. So I had to<br>
> > re-copy all of that manually. A real pain, particularly when Evo didn't<br>
> > want to recognize my calendar and contacts. I finally got it to<br>
> > recognize the calendar stuff by using the Import Individual File option,<br>
> > selecting the calendar.ics that was already in ...evolution/calendar.<br>
><br>
> > Does anyone know what I can do to get my contacts re-installed? I think<br>
> > maybe Evo switched from some other DB format to SQLite. But how do I<br>
> > convert the old addressbook.db?<br>
><br>
> Yes, Evolution changed quite some time ago to use the XDG spec for<br>
> storing data. It (along with everyone else) also left BDB in favor of<br>
> SQLite.<br>
> <<a href="http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.2/data-storage.html.en" target="_blank">http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.2/data-storage.html.en</a>><br>
><br>
> But an upgrade does not overwrite data, as the data gets recreates in a<br>
> different place. The evolution@ list is probably a good place to ask.<br>
> <<a href="https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list" target="_blank">https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list</a>><br>
<br>
</div></div>Unfortunately, as I learned last year, the people on the list are pretty<br>
snotty about helping anyone who doesn't have an official Evo backup and<br>
relied instead on an rdiff-backup. (<rant> E.g., they said, "Of course,<br>
you're not supposed to be messing with hidden file anyway."--First time<br>
I head that in 10 years of working with Linux. And I don't think I've<br>
seen any other application that requires you to use their backup and<br>
doesn't maintain backward compatibility with older file formats. There's<br>
certainly nothing in the help documents that informs the user of this.<br>
</rant>)<br>
<br>
I thought I had muddled through last year and gotten everything sorted<br>
out, but apparently the contacts files did not get updated and so now I<br>
need a way to convert the old addressbook.db to the new sqlite format.<br>
<br>
EB<br>
<br>
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