[Kde-pim] How to recover PIM information?

[D. R. Evans]

Kevin Krammer said the following at 11/07/2012 10:35 PM :

>>
>> So half the problem (the calendar half) is solved, thank you. Do you have
>> any more suggestions as to where the address book mappings for contacts
>> might be stored?
> 
> It should also be in such config files, however the name of the address book 
> might not have been stored that way which is why grepping for it wouldnt 
> necessarily find it.
> 
> Do you have a list of those akonadi_*_resource_*rc files?

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[HN:config] ls -al akonadi*
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr  45 Oct 27  2011 akonadi_akonotes_resource_0rc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr  56 May 16 12:15 akonadi_akonotes_resource_1rc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr  20 May 20 12:51 akonadi_contactrc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr 129 Oct 27  2011 akonadi-firstrunrc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr 140 May 22 10:04 akonadi_kalarm_resource_0rc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr 143 May 22 10:04 akonadi_kalarm_resource_1rc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr 144 May 22 10:04 akonadi_kalarm_resource_2rc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr 496 Sep  8 10:24 akonadi_kcal_resource_10rc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr 459 Sep  8 10:25 akonadi_kcal_resource_11rc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr 458 Sep  8 10:25 akonadi_kcal_resource_1rc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr  55 Dec 10  2011 akonadi_kcal_resource_2rc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr  55 Dec 10  2011 akonadi_kcal_resource_4rc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr  55 Dec 10  2011 akonadi_kcal_resource_5rc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr  55 Dec 10  2011 akonadi_kcal_resource_9rc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr  98 May 17 22:12 akonadi_mailfilter_agentrc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr  37 Oct 27  2011 akonadi_nepomuk_calendar_feederrc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr  37 Oct 27  2011 akonadi_nepomuk_contact_feederrc
-rw------- 1 n7dr n7dr  52 May 22 10:04 akonadi_nepomuk_feederrc
[HN:config]

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> 
> Another thing you could try is to restore the full setup.
> Fot this you would need to stop the Akonadi data exchance service with
> 
> akonadictl stop
> 
> Then overwrite its current files with the one from the backup, i.e.
> files from ~/home-backup/.local/share/akonadi to .local/share/akonadi
> from ~/home-backup/.config/akonadi to .config/akonadi
> the akonadi_* config files to .kde/share/config
> 
> and then restart the service
> akonadictl start

Will try that if the above list of akonadi* files doesn't suggest something
less brutal to you.

  Doc

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