Re: [Evolution] try to recover from ubuntu crash

[ewald <ewald fernbach if-koeln de>]

I finally found a way. As Ralf suggested, in the directories
~/.config/evolution/  and
~/.local/share/evolution/

I replaced the subdirectories from a backup of the old system. In order
to recover the tasks, however, after that I had to use the Import
manager (File>Import) to import "single file" then navigate to the
tasks.ics file (in ~/.local/share/evolution/tasks/system) and import to
personal tasks. After that all tasks and also corresponding
attachements were recovered. Big relief!


-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf Mardorf via evolution-list <evolution-list gnome org>
Reply-to: Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>
To: evolution-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] try to recover from ubuntu crash
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 10:12:53 +0100

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/


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