On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 14:42 -0400, Carpetnailz wrote: > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 10:51 -0400, Carpetnailz wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 10:14 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > > > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 09:56 -0400, Carpetnailz wrote: > > > > Well, I thought, start a new calendar. Maybe that will help. So I'm > > > > going through the new calendar routine and get to the point of telling > > > > it to use an existing calendar. Fine. I select the calendar.ics again. > > > > But now I see a check-box: "Allow Evolution to update the file." > > > > What does this do? There's nothing in the help files that explains this > > > > item. > > > I believe that indicates whether Evolution should treat the file as a > > > read-only, untouchable data source, or whether it's permissible to > > > overwrite the file with modifications (new events, etc.). > > That makes sense. Just a bit confusing because I would have thought > > modifying would just be the default, since presumably that's the normal > > reason for creating a new calendar. > > Anyway. I created the new calendar and chose the calendar.ics to install > > in it. I then get a message at the bottom saying "opening the calendar." > > But when the message goes away there's nothing in the calendar. When I > > try to create a sample event in that calendar, the app stops responding > > and I have to shut down Evo. > > It seems that changing the preference settings for the workweek somehow > > corrupted my .ics file. That's buggy. > > Hopefully when I get home my backup can be used. Should I copy it > > to ..../.local/share/evolution/calendar/system, or have Evolution import > > it from its location on the backup medium? > Well it finally loaded. Don't know why it took so long--at least 4-5 > minutes, if not longer. I gave up and came back later and saw that it > had loaded. The .ics is about 9MB. Is that too big for Evolution?
That actually is a pretty big ICS files. Did you *import* the file into an Evolution calendar, or are you using the existing file as the calendar? -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list