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 <[email protected]> Reply-to: Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> To: [email protected] 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/ _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
