Re: evolution 1.4.6 - contacts backup - suse 9.1 (Serge Naggar)

>    1. evolution 1.4.6 - contacts backup - suse 9.1 (Serge Naggar)
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> Message: 1
> From: Serge Naggar <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Organization: Nc
> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:26:55 -0500
> Subject: [Users] evolution 1.4.6 - contacts backup - suse 9.1
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> Hi,
> 
> the contact list was `unfortunately' replaced by the Palm's during a
> sync operation.
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> I had a backup of evolution [/home/xxx/evolution] but could not get the
> backup-evolution-contact to work.  I replaced/renamed the evolution
> contacts to no avail.
> 
> For the future - What is the best way to backup evolution into its
> constituent parts?
> thanks

Here's a suggestion for backing up contacts -- always a good idea:  save
the contacts in another file format elsewhere on your system or on
removable media.  In MS-Outlook this is called "exporting."  I'm using
Evolution 2.0.3 and didn't see any export command.  But, if you select
all of your contacts (Control-A), the option to "Save as vcard" will
appear under the File menu.  Then you can save the entire contact list
in a separate file.  It's easy to import the contacts back into
evolution if necessary.

Once again, I'm doing this on 2.0.3, but I assume there is the same (or
similar) command in 1.4.6.

Hope this helps.

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