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

[Denny Beyer]

Hi Anne,
thanks for joining in the discussion, see comments below

On 3 November 2011 12:36, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 03 Nov 2011 Denny Beyer wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > after a new installation, I started moving my existing data to the new
> > machine.
>
> It's hard to help without knowing what version of KDE and Kontact are on
> the
> new machine.
>
Ah, sorry, you're right:
KDE 4.7.2 in both cases. The old machine just had some history in trying to
keep my personal data together from version to version, which is quite some
task for kde users.

>
> > 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
> >
> Common places for mail are ~/Mail and ~/Maildir - can you see messages in
> either of those places, if so, copy them to the new machine.
>
I will look into this later, but just moving those directories won't give
me a working kmail2 on the new machine, right? There are more config files
for kontact/kmail etc. Which seems not really documented somewhere.

>
> > 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
> >
> Maybe when adding the resource you chose the wrong type?  It needs to be of
> the type Folder.
>
I expected that and therefore tried all available types - no luck. I'm not
even sure, which is the recommended file format.

>
> > 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.
> >
> Good.
>
Yes, still the warning of not touching data in this directory is a bit
confusing.

>
> > notes
> > - still trying, no success yet. Lost all data several times already in
> the
> > past.
> >
> Not sure - I think that is KNotes.

Yes, it's knotes

>  Have you checked that KNotes is installed?
>
Is installed an running. Would it appear in Kontact, if it wasn't
installed?

> Probably you need to look for something like ~/.knotes on your old machine.
>
I also tried to keep all files under .local/share/notes/ for ease of backup
personal data. But the folders are very confusing. There are 3 folders
inside, some of them are named with some random Letter/Number series.

>
> Anne
>
We had the discussion of how migrating my data here serveral times here.
Mostly because of a failing migration assistant, this is just another
attempt to get a clean cut from old desktop settings but still taking all
personal data across to the new version.

Denny


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