Re: [Evolution] Calendar Birthdays and Appointments

[Richard <reb barmannsbar com>]

I see the Personal and addressbook but cannot get back to my contacts
in Birthdays, I had about 15 contacts entered in there. It would not
import so I entered them by hand. How can I restore them.
Richard


On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 09:30 -0400, Richard wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 09:19 -0400, Richard wrote: Now I am unable to
> open the contacts. What did I do? 
> > 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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