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["Louis Holbrook (for subscriptions only, don't use)" <accounts@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

... which revealed that the database is Personal with CAPITAL P. I am
embarrassed to say that changing this made it work, and I didn't for
some reason get the E_BOOK_IS... error I did before.

Although the article I followed on askubuntu specificed "personal" with
small p; I don't have points enough to comment on that post to point
this out - maybe someone with enough would?

The address again:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/606020/how-to-sync-contacts-and-the-calendar-on-ubuntu-touch-with-owncloud

Thanks for the input, everyone!


On Fri, 2015-05-08 at 09:48 +0200, Marcus Esser wrote:
> You could try
> 
> syncevolution --print-databases
> 
> It lists  all the related databases that were present on my device and
> the ones I created manually.
> 
> On 08/05/15 08:16, Louis Holbrook (for subscriptions only, don't use) wrote:
> > Thanks, but same problem, although I installed in english and am
> > norwegian, so I tried all three options.
> >
> > Is there any way to figure out what the database is called? I guess
> > making a new database won't help things, as the contacts app only reads
> > from the default one?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2015-05-08 at 08:00 +0200, Marcus Esser wrote:
> >> It worked for me as described here:
> >> http://askubuntu.com/questions/616081/ubuntu-touch-add-contact-list-and-calendars
> >>
> >> In my case the data base name was not "personal" but "Persönlich",
> >> assumingly as the first language chosen on my device was German.
> >>
> >> On 08/05/15 07:54, Louis Holbrook (for subscriptions only, don't use) wrote:
> >>> I tried syncing my owncloud install with this very clear and informative
> >>> guide:
> >>>
> >>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/606020/how-to-sync-contacts-and-the-calendar-on-ubuntu-touch-with-owncloud
> >>>
> >>> The first time it ran it seemed to work. It received the contacts from
> >>> owncloud, and a bunch of "adding to addressbook"-lines were output. It
> >>> terminated with something like:
> >>>
> >>> "E_BOOK_IS_... assert failed" (I since lost the specific flag name,
> >>> hasn't happened since).
> >>>
> >>> Since then, I only get:
> >>>
> >>> "First ERROR encountered: error code from SyncEvolution fatal error
> >>> (local, status 10500): @default/contacts: database not found:
> >>> 'personal'"
> >>>
> >>> I tried with database name "contacts" too, since that's the name of the
> >>> file in ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbooks/system/ but same thing
> >>> happened. 
> >>>
> >>> Do I have the wrong name of the address book, or did the first round
> >>> wreck something that needs to be changed back, perhaps?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> 
>