;;; -*- Mode:Emacs-Lisp -*- ;;; This file is part of the Insidious Big Brother Database (aka BBDB), ;;; Copyright (c) 2000 Alex Schroeder ;;; ;;; The Insidious Big Brother Database is free software; you can redistribute ;;; it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as ;;; published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your ;;; option) any later version. ;;; ;;; BBDB is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY ;;; WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS ;;; FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more ;;; details. ;;; ;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to ;;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. (defun bbdb-unmigrate-stuff (&optional new-version) "Create a buffer with unmigrated BBDB data. Usefull if you fooled around with BBDB file format 4 by Alex and want to start using the official BBDB 2.00.06 again. In order to do that, you have to save your .bbdb in BBDB file format 3 instead of the file format 4 introduced by Alex. This function will create a *BBDB Version 3* buffer for you, which you can examine and save as your new .bbdb. The unmigration will strip the country fields of all entries in your BBDB as such a field did not exist in the BBDB file format 3 used in BBDB 2.00.06." (interactive "nUnmigrate to version (I recommend version 3): ") (if (null new-version) (setq new-version 3)) (if (>= new-version bbdb-file-format) (error "Current BBDB file format is version %d" bbdb-file-format) (let* ((records (bbdb-records)) (propnames (bbdb-with-db-buffer bbdb-propnames)) (rec) (bbdb-file-format-migration (cons bbdb-file-format new-version)) (buf (get-buffer-create (format "*BBDB Version %d*" (cdr bbdb-file-format-migration))))) (message "Unconverting the BBDB database...") (set-buffer buf) (erase-buffer) (insert (format (concat ";;; file-version: %d\n" ";;; user-fields: %S\n") new-version (mapcar (function (lambda (x) (intern (car x)))) propnames))) (while records (setq rec (copy-sequence (car records))) (bbdb-unmigrate-record rec) (aset rec 8 nil) (insert (format "%S\n" rec)) (setq records (cdr records))) (pop-to-buffer buf) (message "Unconverting the BBDB database...done"))))