| Summary: | Using pimsettingexporter --import fails to restore settings from other version of OS | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] pimsettingexporter | Reporter: | Freek de Kruijf <freekdekruijf> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Laurent Montel <montel> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | mark |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | openSUSE | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
I also see this, simply transferring from one system to another. Setting up a clean install on Fedora 25 when installing a new disk. I exported everything Kontact (v 16.12, Plasma 5.9(.3?)) volunteered, then imported on the new install. All my accounts are recreated, all named akonadi-<protocol>-resource-<id of some sort> Extremely frustrating. Also, mail filters have not been ex/imported at all. No previous email appears to have arrived either, although there is a lot of it. Further to my "all the accounts are recreated" statement, while trying to rename the badly named accounts, several of the names changed to "POP 3 Account" when I entered the modify dialogue, still had a fairly relevant username entry, and a password (which, of course, I can't read), and no other data, so I can't tell if these were valid accounts or not. They certainly aren't in this newly updated state. I have slightly rearranged the folder structure, but not only should this not be relevant to accounts (should it?), but also the import had gone through an extensive "what directory should I use for xxx" for all of those. Too old to keep it open |
I used pimsettingexporter to save all settings on openSUSE 42,1. To restore these settings on the same account in openSUSE 42.2 I use: > pimsettingexporter -v pimsettingexporter 5.3.0 (QtWebEngine) The main problem I had was that this application did not use the names I gave to the 6 IMAP servers I use. So I has problems to match folders that were presented to me to match to folders on the new account. I just want to mimic the situation on the older system on the new system. So finally I did hit the Cancel button repeatedly which resulted in a crash. I started the application on a console so I got the error message. QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 4483, resource id: 46141944, major code: 40 (TranslateCoords), minor code: 0 KCrash: Application 'pimsettingexporter' crashing... KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib64/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit sock_file=/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0 Because I did run the application twice, I got all accounts, servers etc. twice in the system, which became apparent after starting kontact. So probably the default should be to overwrite all information instead of merging things in a new run of the application. Reproducible: Always Expected Results: I would expect to run the application without many questions about how to match folders and just have a setup that mimics the original setup it gets imported from. I will delete the account and start all over again.