[Kde-pim] How to recover PIM information?

[laurent Montel]

In 4.9 I started to create a import/export PIM Settings application (backupMail)
(just for kmail for the moment).
I started to improve it to support all PIM application in 4.10
(and renamed it to pimsettingexporter)

Regards

Le mercredi 7 novembre 2012 18:01:11 Dan Vrátil a écrit :
> 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 suggest you restore these files from ~/home-backup, copy them to respective 
> folders in ~/.kde/share/apps/{kabc,korganizer} and add them to Akonadi again 
> by adding new Addressbook a Calendar resources and selecting the files in 
> their configuration dialogs.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Cheers
> Dan
> 
> 
> > 
> > I hope that makes sense.
> > 
> >   Doc
> > 
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