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

[Denny Beyer]

Obviously, there are more people with issues trying to benefit from a clean
cut ... and looking for a way to take just the data across to a new install.
See this recent conversation
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.suse.kde/14533

So, there is demand for documenting this migration path.


On 3 November 2011 10:24, Denny Beyer <lumnis at googlemail.com> 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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