On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 12:10 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 17:39 -0700, Frank Tanner wrote:
> > After I upgraded to Fedora 14 from Fedora 13, an issue has cropped up
> > with my Address Book, I am hoping that someone has seen.
> >
> > I exported my configuration from the old one and imported it into the
> > new one. When I click on two of my three address books that I have I
> > get the following error message:
> >
> > Unable to open Address Book
> > This address book cannot be opened. This either means that the
> > incorrect URI was entered, or the server is unreachable.
> > Detailed error message: Invalid source
> >
> > The two address books that give this error worked fine in the version of
> > Evolution that was in Fedora 13.
> >
> > Can anyone think of what caused this error and/or how to resolve it?
> >
> > THank you.
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure if this matters but evolution switched to using the latest
> XDG standards[1] for file locations in 2.32. Your user data is now no
> longer in .evolution, rather its in .config/evolution. The new version
> should automatically move files to the new location iirc.
>
> OR:
>
> You can use gconf-editor to see the settings for the address book. iirc,
> the source etc. are specified there. I had some trouble after a back up
> and restore, making some changes to the gconf files fixed it. Do back up
> your gconf settings before you go tweaking (~/.gconf/apps/evolution).
>
Looking at it, I'm not sure what I should change it to. It says like
file:///home/ftanner/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/local/{foldername} for each of the address books that I have created.
> You should also skim the evolution bug reports to see if this is a known
> issue.
>
> Regards,
> Ankur
>
> [1]http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
>
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