Subject: Resetting addressbook?

From: [email-masked] (++ Pegboy ++)
Date: 13 Dec 1995 17:20:38 -0500

Hi!
I come across this problem every so often....
When I go to my .addressbook, I get a message saying:
'addressbook changed by another process'
then it says:
're-syncing addressbook'
 
It will do this for up to a half an hour, till I get aggravated and hang 
up on my server... Hanging up seems to be the only way out....
When I call back, I then have to:

cat .addressbook >> .newaddressbook  
cat .addressbook.lu >> .newaddressbook

Then in my .pinerc file I change the addressbook to .newaddressbook.

Even after doing so, I lose some address's in the process...

Hopefully some one here can help, since after a few letters to them, they 
have never even answered.....

Thanks in advance!
Chris

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 22:45:29 -0800 (PST)

> Even after doing so, I lose some address's in the process...

There were some problems just like this with earlier versions of pine.
What version are you using?  If you're using 3.91 and seeing this problem,
I'd very much like to understand why.  If you're using 3.90, upgrade to
3.91.  When it happens and you hang up, does it happen again when you log
back in (without doing the cat..cat thing)?  If so, stop at that point and
send your .addressbook and .addressbook.lu to [email-masked] as
attachments.  Describe what can be done to make the problem happen for
you.

And by the way, cat'ing the .addressbook and .addressbook.lu files
together into the same file is guaranteed to cause some weirdness.  Hard
to believe it fixes anything.

> Chris

Thanks,
Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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From: [email-masked] (++ Pegboy ++)
Date: 19 Dec 1995 13:28:14 -0500

: There were some problems just like this with earlier versions of pine.
: What version are you using?  If you're using 3.91 and seeing this problem,
: I'd very much like to understand why.  If you're using 3.90, upgrade to
: 3.91.  When it happens and you hang up, does it happen again when you log
: back in (without doing the cat..cat thing)?  If so, stop at that point and
: send your .addressbook and .addressbook.lu to [email-masked] as
: attachments.  Describe what can be done to make the problem happen for
: you.
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The server, gti.net, uses 3.90, but getting them to upgrade would 
probably be next to impossible, since they didn't even answer my mail 
directly to them about this problem.... in other words, I don't think 
they care... but, it can't hurt to ask (I hope). 
 Yes, it does do it after I call back, and just keeps doing the same thing
 over and over....                             

: And by the way, cat'ing the .addressbook and .addressbook.lu files
: together into the same file is guaranteed to cause some weirdness.  Hard
: to believe it fixes anything.
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It does work to a point, but I do have to fix it a bit afterwards. Now, I 
just have backups of the .add and the .add.lu, so when it occurs, I just 
delete it and put the backup in....

: Thanks,
: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
: Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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Thanks for the help Steve!
Chris

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