Re: [Evolution] missing calendar

[Eric Beversluis <ebever researchintegration org>]

On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 10:51 -0400, Carpetnailz wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 10:14 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 09:56 -0400, Carpetnailz wrote:
> > > Well, I thought, start a new calendar. Maybe that will help. So I'm
> > > going through the new calendar routine and get to the point of telling
> > > it to use an existing calendar. Fine. I select the calendar.ics again.
> > > But now I see a check-box: "Allow Evolution to update the file."
> > >
> > > What does this do? There's nothing in the help files that explains this
> > > item.
> >
> > I believe that indicates whether Evolution should treat the file as a
> > read-only, untouchable data source, or whether it's permissible to
> > overwrite the file with modifications (new events, etc.).
> >
> > Matthew Barnes
> That makes sense. Just a bit confusing because I would have thought
> modifying would just be the default, since presumably that's the normal
> reason for creating a new calendar.
>
> Anyway. I created the new calendar and chose the calendar.ics to install
> in it. I then get a message at the bottom saying "opening the calendar."
> But when the message goes away there's nothing in the calendar. When I
> try to create a sample event in that calendar, the app stops responding
> and I have to shut down Evo.
>
> It seems that changing the preference settings for the workweek somehow
> corrupted my .ics file. That's buggy.
>
> Hopefully when I get home my backup can be used. Should I copy it
> to ..../.local/share/evolution/calendar/system, or have Evolution import
> it from its location on the backup medium?
>
> Thanks.
Well it finally loaded! Why would it take so long? At least 4-5 minutes,
maybe longer, since I gave up eventually and just came back to it later.
The .ics is about 9 MB. That's only a couple of years' worth of data. Is
there some reason Evo can't handle such a file size?