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

[Denny Beyer]

On 3 November 2011 20:32, Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
All your data have been automatically converted and transfered between
versions from kde1 through to kde4 with kontact 2/ kde4.7.x by just keeping
your $home as it is with no user interaction required? Wow. I'm impressed.

>
> 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.

Your are not being harsh, but far from reality. In case you reed any
computer news websites, messages from broken settings and not working
kdepim 4 are just piling up and the few users left are getting less and
less.

> If you cannot be bothered with doing
> it the only way that is guaranteed to work then I cannot help you.

The thing you describe as the "only" way and "guaranteed to work" is not
really there.

> You
> have forfeit your right to complain.
>
Ok, i will keep quite from now on. I was hoping to discuss issues with
kdepim on this list and together with others, including developers, find a
solution to help other users out there with the same issue.

>
>
> Regards,
> Ingo
>
> Cheers,
Denny

>
> > 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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> >
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