Migrating from Kolab1 to Kolab2

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Some finding on Migration from Kolab1 to Kolab2. This is not a complete migration guide!

Migrating Calendar

The calendar format changed from ical to Kolab2-XML format.

One option is:

• run the old KDE Kolab1 Client on the Kolab1 Server
• go to the Calendar Folder
• select file->export ical and store the .ics file somewhere
• now run the KDE Kolab2 Client (which has been already configured for a Kolab2 Server)
• go to Calendar
• select file->import->join calendar
• select the .ics file you exported before
• sync (this converts into the new Kolab2-XML format)

Note: The encoding in the ical file will be most likely wrong, i.e. latin1 instead of utf8 (this may depend on your locale settings). When importing kontact expects utf8 and if the ical file uses latin1 non-ascii characters will wrong after the import. Converting the file to utf8 solves this.

Migrating Contacts

The contacts format changed from vcard to Kolab2-XML format.

One option is:

• run the old KDE Kolab1 Client on the Kolab1 Server
• go to the Contacts
• select file->export->export vCard 3.0
• now run the KDE Kolab2 Client (which has been already configured for a Kolab2 Server)
• go to Contatcs
• select file->import->import vcard
• select the .vcf addressbook you exported before
• sync (this converts into the new Kolab2-XML format)