[Kde-pim] Moving pim data to new kde install

[ianseeks]

Wouldn't it be nice to have a "kontact" link directory that you could just 
copy and it pulled in all the various parts of the PIM together instead of 
having to search out all the disparate parts of it.

regards

Ian

On Thursday 03 Nov 2011 10:24:10 Denny Beyer wrote:
> Dear all,
> after a new installation, I started moving my existing data to the new
> machine.
> Here is the status of what I found out and got working so far.
> 
> eMail
> - not tried yet and not sure how to do it
> 
> contacts
> - all data is stored as single vcf files (one file per contact) under
> .local/share/contacts/private/
> - copying those files to the new machine to the same location and the
> adding a new address - source in KAddressbook pointing to this directory
> makes akonadi to crash
> 
> calendar
> - all calendar data is stored in .local/share/calendar/private which is an
> vcs/ics - file
> - copying those files to same location on the new machine
> - adding a new calendar resource in KOrganizer (Kontact) and pointing to
> the file (added as iCal file)
> => Success: Calendar entries are shown as expected.
> 
> notes
> - still trying, no success yet. Lost all data several times already in the
> past.
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Denny
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