Help-- korganizer has no calenders and has lost my timetable

William Unruh

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Apr 20, 2016, 6:31:11 PM4/20/16

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I had a complete calender of events that I put into korganizer. And now
when I go to look, there is nothing there. I try to import a dates.ics,
but still nothing shows up. All my events have disappeared.

Mageia 5, kde 4 up to date.
What have they do to this program.

If I run it from the command line there are no error messages. Just
nothing to be seen.

dlbendigo

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Apr 20, 2016, 11:46:24 PM4/20/16

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William Unruh <un...@invalid.ca> Wrote in message:

Sounds like your earlier bug. I don't run KDE, but a corrupted
dates.ics
could be the cause. Do you have another calendar program?

Doug.
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dlbendigo

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Apr 20, 2016, 11:53:51 PM4/20/16

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dlbendigo <laid...@hotkey.net.au> Wrote in message:

You could install (say) Orage, just for the test. I think it is stand
alone. I have proved it can run .ics files from KDE.
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William Unruh

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Apr 21, 2016, 10:37:13 AM4/21/16

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Yes, it does. I thought that MGA5 had solved it, but it reappeared.
I tried to move out the old .kde4, restarted X and suddenly everyting
works again. I have dates.ics std.ics, and 5 Personal Calenders. But
.kde4/share/apps/korganizer was unpopulated. Ie, no dates.ics, std.ics
in there. And no Perswonal Calendar. But all of the old dates and
entries were in korganizer. So it seems to be storing its stuff
elsewhere.
Does anyone know where it stores its stuff now? Some binary file
somewhere?

I tried a search for files which had changed in the past day, but there
were far too many of them.
>
> Doug.

Doug Laidlaw

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Apr 22, 2016, 4:01:14 AM4/22/16

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On 22/04/16 00:33, William Unruh wrote:
> Does anyone know where it stores its stuff now? Some binary file
> somewhere?
>
> I tried a search for files which had changed in the past day, but there
> were far too many of them.
>> >

I can't find any alternative. The rc file is in .kde4/share/config,
and the calendars in .kde4/share/apps/korganizer. A refresh of .kde4
may have cleaned up the rc fiile, but it would have deleted your calendars.

Nowadays, there is a heap of stuff in ~/.cache. The config for firefox
is there. It may contain backups. A "locate" for the .ics files is all
I can suggest.

Doug.

William Unruh

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Apr 22, 2016, 12:36:30 PM4/22/16

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On 2016-04-22, Doug Laidlaw <laid...@hotkey.net.au> wrote:
> On 22/04/16 00:33, William Unruh wrote:
>> Does anyone know where it stores its stuff now? Some binary file
>> somewhere?
>>
>> I tried a search for files which had changed in the past day, but there
>> were far too many of them.
>>> >
> I can't find any alternative. The rc file is in .kde4/share/config,
> and the calendars in .kde4/share/apps/korganizer. A refresh of .kde4
> may have cleaned up the rc fiile, but it would have deleted your calendars.

Yes, it cleaned up .kde4/share/apps/korganizer but not .local where
akonadi seems to keep its junk.

>
> Nowadays, there is a heap of stuff in ~/.cache. The config for firefox
> is there. It may contain backups. A "locate" for the .ics files is all
> I can suggest.

It really seems it no longer keeps its stuff in .ics files. That is what
it used to do, but now akonida seems to be used to handle everything, at
least on MGA3 and 5.
the korganizerrc file has essentially nothing in it.

What I suspect is that the ics files are used only for backup, not for
any storage. This whole drive to storing everything in binary files
which are readable only by special software is just dumb. It is ripe for
bugs and problems. Especially when there is no information anywhere as
to exactly what is done.

>
> Doug.

Brian Wakem

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Apr 23, 2016, 9:38:58 AM4/23/16

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William Unruh wrote:

> It really seems it no longer keeps its stuff in .ics files. That is what
> it used to do, but now akonida seems to be used to handle everything, at
> least on MGA3 and 5.
> the korganizerrc file has essentially nothing in it.
>
> What I suspect is that the ics files are used only for backup, not for
> any storage. This whole drive to storing everything in binary files
> which are readable only by special software is just dumb. It is ripe for
> bugs and problems. Especially when there is no information anywhere as
> to exactly what is done.

See https://blogs.kde.org/node/4503

Particularly "2) Calendars and contact information"

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Brian Wakem

William Unruh

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Apr 23, 2016, 3:50:09 PM4/23/16

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And there is nothing inside my .local/share/contacts file
And there is nothing there about calendars.

Totally fucked up.
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