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

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Thursday 03 November 2011, ianseeks wrote:
> 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.

There is such a directory. It's called $HOME. I will not get tired of 
preaching that the only sensible way of migration to a new system is a 
full copy of the entire $HOME directory. I have been doing this 
successfully about 7 times or so for the last 15 years and I have never 
lost a single bit of data.

If some people think they need to use a more complicated method then 
that's their problem. Sorry, for being harsh, but if you are asking for 
trouble then that's what you get. If you cannot be bothered with doing 
it the only way that is guaranteed to work then I cannot help you. You 
have forfeit your right to complain.


Regards,
Ingo


> 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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