Re: [Evolution] More importing questions

[David Ronis <ronis ronispc chem mcgill ca>]

Hi Andre,

Thanks for the reply, my comments are below.

David 

On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 18:33 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> hi david,
>
> Am Freitag, den 23.09.2005, 18:05 -0400 schrieb David Ronis:
> > I'm trying to move from emacs(etc) to evolution-2.4.  I have a calendar
> > file that is basically free-form, but nonetheless, emacs' calendar mode
> > has no trouble parsing it.  To get the data into evolution, I've tried:
> >
> > 1) importing the file--no luck--it isn't recognized
>
> of course, since it's free form, there won't be an importer. :-)
>
> > 2) writing a trivial program to parse the file, write vevent entries
> > (see below) and then import the file--this does something, but in the
> > end, I see nothing in the calendar and no error message.
>
> hmm. any output on the shell?

No.  In the end I fixed(?) all these problems by installing multisync
(the CVS has an evolution plugin).  I wanted to use this for syncing
evolution between my laptop and desktop (it turns out that this isn't
handled by multisync), but as a side-effect it ended up repairing
whatever I'd not done right in creating my own VEVNETs.  A new file,
calendar.ics-msyncid2.db appears along with the calendar.ics file.

On a related question I'd posted before (with no reply), it seems that
mailsync can handle evolution Inbox style files, well at least most of
the time.  Occasionaly something goes wrong and when I restart evolution
(I don't run mailsync with evolution runing, of course!) It complains
about Inbox being not writable even after a sync.  Running multisync
seems to fix this too.  Needless to say, I'm somewhat concerned about
this, and may be playing Russian Roulette.  Any idea if/when evolution
will have a built-in sync client to sync between desktops?

 

> > 4) Finally, (I like this one the best :)):
> >
> > I deleted ~/.evolution/.evolution/calendar/local/system/calendar.ics and
> > started evolution.  The calendar entries I'd added via evolution were
> > still there!  Clearly the information is being stored somewhere else,
> > and hence, I guess that my manual attempt to hack the file was doomed to
> > fail.
>
> well, the appointments are stored in that file, if you have added your
> appointments to your "Personal" calendar. other calendars are stored in
> the other folders under ~/.evolution/calendar/local/.
> evolution stores its information about its calendars (NOT the
> appointments) in gconf at "/apps/evolution/calendar/sources".

That probably is why I got what I did.

Thanks again.

David

> cheers,
> andre
>
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