[kde-linux] KNotes Migration Tool: ARGH!!!!

[Thomas Tanghus]

On Wednesday 30 July 2014 02:08 James Tyrer wrote:
> On 07/29/2014 01:55 PM, Thomas Tanghus wrote:
> > On Monday 28 July 2014 22:51 James Tyrer wrote:
> >> I really don't care if (some of) the developers hate me because I am too
> >> much like Steve Jobs.  I was born that way.  I just think that this
> >> stuff should work correctly before it escapes into the wild instead of
> >> being like Ebola -- a nightmare for users.
> >> 
> >> What am I supposed to do with the: KNotes Migration Tool?
> > 
> > Version
> 
> 4.13.2
> 
> Specifically note that this is not V.x.0.  I know better than to even
> install that.  I figure, however, that if a major screw up was allowed
> to slip into the ".0" that by ".2" that it will either be fixed or
> removed.  WRONG.
> 
> > and distribution
> 
> Linux from Scratch is a distribution.
> 
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Sorry, didn't notice that in your sig.

> > info would probably help.
> > Might be related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333640

Did you read the above mentioned report?

> >> It said that it would take a quite a while to run.  Well, it has been
> >> running about 6 hours (AMD 4400+) and it has eaten _ALL_ my alarms from
> >> KAlarm.
> > 
> > KAlarm and KNotes are different apps.
> 
> Yes, but they both have *.ics files.  I was rather surprised when I saw
> pop up messages about KAlarm when it was supposedly migrating KNotes
> files.  I tried this again and apparently it was just a coincidence.
> 
> > For me it helped killing and restarting KAlarm.
> 
> Didn't help.
> 
> I find that I still have the old files.  Removing the new Akondi files
> and restarting KDE restored my alarms.  But only once.  Perhaps I was
> lucky or perhaps it was because there were active alarms pending.
> 
> So, basically, now I have two applets that I found useful that don't
> work.  This is not what a user should expect on a STABLE release.

Try to run knotes-migrator again. If that doesn't help, you'd better ask at 
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards

Thomas Tanghus