[Evolution] reinstalled, where'd my contacts go?

[Calum Benson]

On 15 Jun 2005, at 20:34, Brian Mury wrote:

> I just did a fresh reinstall of my OS (to upgrade from FC3 to FC4). I
> saved my .evolution folder but neglected to back up gconf folder. My
> mail was still there, my tasks and calendar were not visible, but I  
> was
> able to import them and all is well. My contacts are not there, and  
> I am
> unable to import them.
>
> How do I access the contacts which are in
> ~/.evolution/addressbook/local/system/addressbook.db ?

The only way I've ever been able to move contacts between evolution  
installations is to export them as a vcf file in the old  
installation, and import them again in the new installation.  They're  
stored in Berkeley DB format in that .db file, so if anyone knows a  
way to export the info directly from one of those, I'd like to hear  
about it too...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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