Evolution: Import addressbook from old home directory

When i switch from Ubuntu to Fedora, i just backuped my home directory and didn't create a backup from my mails/addressbook with the function provided in Evolution. I thought copy the mails and addressbook from your old to your new home directory will do the job. For the mail the idea is right, but not for the addressbook. because in the background a database server is running.

Open Evolution, create the same numbers of addressbooks you had in your old one, create for every addressbook one contact (without this step no directory will be created in $home/.evolution/addressbook/local for an addressbook).

Close Evolution and stop the database server with

evolution --force-shutdown

Now copy the addressbooks and start Evolution.
The next time i will use the backup function from Evolution, sure !