Re: [Evolution] Calendar Birthdays and Appointments

[Richard <reb barmannsbar com>]

You are right. I have the Flatpak. Where should I see the list of
Calendars? At the top left I see Birthdays and Anniverseries below the
Personal and contacts. Does that change the Calendar?

Thank you.Richard 

On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 08:57 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-07-03 at 17:42 -0400, Richard wrote:
> > I can see the Birthdays in the "TO DO" bar but not in the calendar.
>
>       Hi,
> that can be because the Birthdays are provided by
> Birthdays&Anniversaries calendar, not by the On This
> Computer/Personal
> calendar. These are shown in the calendar if the corresponding
> calendar
> is checked in the list of calendars on the left.
>
> You claimed you use Evolution 3.32.2, but it looks like you use the
> 3.32.3 from Flatpak. Is that correct? At least using Flatpak changes
> a
> lot of things, the directories are different and the overall work and
> the way to debug things is very different from the host-system
> installed Evolution.
>
> In the Flatpak version, usual path to store user data is in:
>    ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution/data/evolution/calendar/system/
> That's where the On This Computer/Personal stores its data.
> The system-calendar.source file is stored in:
>    ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution/config/evolution/sources/
>
> On Wed, 2019-07-03 at 15:29 -0400, Richard Barmann wrote:
> > Sorry to say I am not savvy enough to follow your instructions. Is
> > there any thing I can do in simple language to solve this? I am
> > afraid to go into the code you have sent because I might mess up
> > more than I cured.
>
> If we are talking about the Flatpak version, then you cannot break
> much. If you do not have much data setup in the Flatpak version, then
> I'd suggest to start from scratch, that is:
> a) restart the machine (this will make sure no background processes
>    related to the Flatpak version of Evolution are running)
> b) rename the Flatpak version directory, thus the next time you
>    start Evolution it will create it from scratch. You can do it
> with:
>    $ mv ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution
> ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution.bak
> c) start the Flatpak version of Evolution. There will be no data, no
>    accounts, just nothing, but there should not be any errors like
> before
>    as well. You can always return back to the previous Flatpak
> version
>    data when you run these two commands, ideally after restart (see
> a)):
>    $ mv ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution
> ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution.new
>    $ mv ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution.bak
> ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution
>
> Hope it helps to fix the system-calendar error.
>       Bye,
>       Milan
>
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