[Kde-pim] How to recover PIM information?

[D. R. Evans]

Dan Vrátil said the following at 11/07/2012 10:01 AM :
> On Wednesday 07 of November 2012 09:21:08 D. R. Evans wrote:
>> I tried asking this on the Kubuntu reflector, but did not receive any advice
>> that turned out to be useful. One person did point me here, though.
>>
>> ----
>>
>> Because of a series of bad things happening, I am in the following
>> situation:
>>
>> I have a new installation of Kubuntu 12.10. In particular, all the PIM
>> information (kontact, calendars, etc.) is unpopulated. I also have a backup
>> of my home directory hierarchy from a 12.04 disk that failed subsequent to
>> the backup. This backup contains (somewhere) all my PIM information -- in
>> particular all my contacts (in multiple address books) and also my
>> calendars.
>>
>> So my question is: how do I find and then import the PIM information from
>> the backup disk so that I can use it on the 12.10 system?
>>
>> To try to avoid confusion, here is another way to describe the situation: I
>> have a functioning 12.10 system with no PIM information. On this system I
>> have a directory ~/home-backup/ that contains the complete hierarchy of a
>> home directory from a system that contained my PIM information.
>> How do I find and transfer the right files from the ~/home-backup/ hierarchy
>> to the new ~ hierarchy so that the PIM information is available to the new
>> system? I don't know the names of the files that held the various resources
>> (and at least some of the calendars were remote), so the threshold issue is
>> that I need to be able to find the *pointers* to the actual resources --
>> which of course akonadi knew about on the old system and presumably are
>> located in the guts of a database somewhere in the old hierarchy. Once I
>> can read the pointers to where the actual resources (i.e., address books
>> and calendars) are located, it should be easy to import them into the new
>> system.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> vCard with your contacts is in ~/home-backup/.kde/share/apps/kabc/*.vcf
> iCal with your events is in ~/home-backup/.kde/share/apps/korganizer/*.ics 
> (note: on some distribution the folder might be called .kde4)

I don't think you understand the problem. I tried to be unambiguous, but the
evidence is that I failed.

For example, the ~/home-backup/.kde/share/apps/korganizer/*.ics files, if they
existed -- which they don't -- would be *local* calendars. All my calendars
were remote, scattered around a bunch of systems at remote URLs that I do not
know. What I need to know is the way to retrieve the information as to where
those URLs are (i.e., the pointers* to the calendars).

For example, suppose I had a calendar called "Fred's calendar", which was
actually located at some remote URL. On the old system, when I opened kontact,
it knew that "Fred's calendar" really referred to that remote URL, and would
happily populate my screen with information from that calendar. That's the
mapping I need to recover. Somewhere in a file in the old hierarchy that
mapping must exist, but I have no idea where, and, more importantly, I do now
know how to make that mapping accessible so I can reconstitute it.

  Doc

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