On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 21:38 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: > <snip> > > Lanny, if you are concerned about data loss, you could install a local imap > > server (over wich you'll can do all the backups that you like) and keep it in > > sync with google with imapsync (rpmforge repository). > > Looks simple and straightforward to do: > > > > http://nivox.blogspot.com/2008/02/gmail-imap-backup.html > > I just discovered that the mbox files are *not* the problem! Exporting > my Address book from Evolution is not intuitively obvious. I found a web > page from May 2006, that says: > "Export the evolution address book with the evolution-addressbook-export > utility in csv format" and it said to use this command: > /usr/lib/evolution/2.X/evolution-addressbook-export --format=csv > > contacts.csv > but I cannot find evolution-addressbook-export there. > I have been using Evolution for years, because Upstream defaults to it, > but YUK..... I am moving to Thunderbird and I am not going to look back. > I will keep searching, for a hopefully simple way to Export my contacts > from Evolution, so I can Import them into Thunderbird..... :-) ---- /usr/libexec/evolution/2.8/evolution-addressbook-export Craig