Re: [Evolution] missing calendar

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 14:42 -0400, Carpetnailz wrote:
> 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.).
> > 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?
> Well it finally loaded. Don't know why it took so long--at least 4-5
> minutes, if not longer. I gave up and came back later and saw that it
> had loaded. The .ics is about 9MB. Is that too big for Evolution?

That actually is a pretty big ICS files.  Did you *import* the file into
an Evolution calendar, or are you using the existing file as the
calendar?

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam whitemice org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA