Evolution & Ubuntu 12.04 - Google Addressbook issue

Evolution  is not the default  email client in Ubuntu 12.04 Lts,

but you can easily install it via the software centre.

If you Use a google address-book, you might have noticed that at first start the address-book often won't be populated, and throw and error.

Solution: Kill e-addressbook-factory process.

You can do that via the system monitor, by right mouse click on the process and choose "kill proces"

Of course doing that every time gets annoying,

so I find it better to create a script that you link to a keyboard shortcut.

Script: (I named it killaddressbook)
(located for example in /home/user-name/bin)

#!/bin/bash
killall -9 /usr/lib/evolution/e-addressbook-factory
exit 0

Note: Don't forget to change permissions "allow to execute"
(sudo chmod +x /home/user-name/bin/killaddressbook)

Next: Open the keyboard manager: (see below)

After the first start of evolution, press "Ctrl+Alt+A" to kill the address-book,

from now on evolution will load the google address-book correctly.