Re: [Evolution] try to recover from ubuntu crash

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Sun, 2019-03-24 at 09:38 +0100, ewald wrote:
> ...now using debian 9, Evolution 3.22.6 trying to recover from ubuntu
> crash (X-server won't start anymore) the last but important problem is
> to recover the personal tasks from the old system.
> I have two evolution directories in the old system ~/.config/evolution
> and ~/.local/share/evolution where are my personal tasks stored and is
> there a way to recover them?

I would go the trial-and-error path by first making a backup to an
external drive, followed by making a copy of the new existing
directories inside of $HOME. 

cp -ai ~/.config/evolution/      ~/.config/evolution.copy
cp -ai ~/.local/share/evolution/ ~/.local/share/evolution.copy

Perhaps I would clear the cache.

rm -Ir ~/.cache/evolution/

Then I would start with removing the new 'task' sub-directories.

rm -Ir ~/.config/evolution/tasks/
rm -Ir ~/.local/share/evolution/tasks/

After that I would restore the 'task' directories from the old
directories and perhaps try other things, too.

If it should fail I would remove the chaos.

rm -Ir ~/.config/evolution/ ~/.local/share/evolution/

Then I would restore from the copy and at the same time remove the copy.

mv -i ~/.config/evolution.copy/      ~/.config/evolution
mv -i ~/.local/share/evolution.copy/ ~/.local/share/evolution

In case of emergency you still could restore from the _real_ backup.

If it _seems_ to work, I again would make a backup to an external drive
and after that remove the copy from the install, not from the backup.

rm -Ir ~/.config/evolution.copy/ ~/.local/share/evolution.copy/