Imported personal contacts not searched on compose window

[Mannex]

Binary package hint: evolution

After upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 from 10.04, my personal contacts no longer autucomplete in the new message compose window (under "To:") nor do they appear when pressing the To: button. The contacts were imported from the version distributed on 10.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 7 11:46:25 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.utf8
SourcePackage: evolution

[Mannex (russ-mannex)]

By the way, I have been able to work around this:

1. Backup Evolution settings.
2. Export personal contacts to a .vcf file
3. Erase all personal contacts
4. Backup Evolution to a different file (i.e. "nocontacts.tar...")
5. Import the empty file
6. Import the .vcf file to the personal address book.

Note that steps 4 and 5 seem redundant, but through all the iterations, it seems I had to do it in order for it to work.

Hope that is useful to anyone else having this problem.

[Mannex (russ-mannex)]

This seems to no longer be an issue in 11.04. FYI. Feel free to close it.

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

Bug from 2010. Version not longer supportet.
Change status to Invalid