Eolution restore Addressbook help please

[DoktorA]

I had some problems recently. An upgrade wiped my Evolution settings, and then my backup hard drive failed spectacularly.

I have the Addressbook.db file but nothing else from the original setup. I am OK with losing the emails because they are all on line. But, can I "reinstall" the original address book into the now recovered and upgraded Evolution programme? I tried to just copy the .db file into the .evolution folder, replacing the addressbook.db file created by installing Evolution but could not see my old address book when I opened Evolution. Am I doing something wrong? Or is it not that simple and I need other files to recreate the address book (I do have the addressbook summary.db file and copied that into Evolution too).

Thanks,
Neil

[blnl]

Did you make a backup of your /home/user directory?

To restore your evolution data you need to recover the following directories:
.evolution
.gconf/apps/evolution
.gnome2_private/Evolution

[DoktorA]

I did backup the whole directory.

Thanks, I will copy/overwrite the new files with my backup. I thought since I only wanted the address book it would be easy, but copying three directories is not exactly difficult.

Cheers.

[blnl]

If you want the address data only, the are two addressbook locations:
.evolution/addressbook
.gconf/apps/evolution/addressbook