How to migrate contacts/calendars

[Johannes Graumann]

Johannes Graumann wrote:

> Johannes Graumann <johannes_graumann <at> web.de> writes:
> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> After havin sucessfully setup a fresh 2.2-rc3 system, I'm experimenting
>> with how
>> to transfer my 2.1 data over to it. mailboxes are easy (mbox), but when
>> transfering contacts I for example loos all custom categories I defined
>> for them
>> *no matter whether using vcards or ldif ...). Can anyone advisse how to
>> do this?
>> 
>> Also: what's the best way to migrate calendar/ttask entries?
>> 
>> Thanks, Joh
>> 
> 
> 
> Just to clarify: I'm not talking about ldap-resident contacts *as there is
> some WIKI information on this topic available(, but groupware/imap
> contacts. I can export those just fine as an mbox file and import them
> again, but I loose all of my quite extensive category data ... will it
> help to precreate the categories ... slinks off to try it ...
> 
> Joh

Hi again,

Once I made sure that Kontact was treating the appropriate imap folders as
calendar/contacts/... ressources importing all the stuff from mbox files
was a non-problem. The categories had to be re-created by hand on the new
server though before ...

Joh