[CS-FSLUG] Recovering Evolution Address Book

[Ed Hurst]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Nathan T. wrote:

> We've had a disaster with dad's computer. He trusted all his e-mail
> in the hands of Evolution without making a back-up, and after a bad
> update in Ubuntu he lost everything. We have what looks like the
> original files, but either the data therein got messed up, or simply
> nothing including Evolution will open older Evolution address books.
> We have a collection of .db files, they are in binary and as such
> filtering through by hand won't do us any good. I've tried moving the
> old files over to a new evolution on another computer, but it just
> wouldn't see the old contacts or the address books. We've also tried
> importing, and evolution doesn't have the ability to import it's own
> address books as they were stored. Finally we tried looking at
> alternatives, and even waiting to see if the original evolution
> installation would be fixed after some updates, but it was all
> without success.

Using .db was one of the reasons I've always rejected Evo. I found a
page with two scripts which should help extract the addresses into a
different format:

    http://www.geocities.com/lunatech3007/exportevo.html

They use Perl and Python.

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Ed Hurst
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