How to recover PIM information?

[O. Sinclair]

On 06/11/2012 20:50, D. R. Evans wrote:
> Because of a series of bad things happening, I am in the following situation:
>
> I have a new installation of Kubuntu 12.10. In particular, all the PIM
> information (kontact, calendars, etc.) is unpopulated. I also have a backup of
> my home directory hierarchy from a 12.04 disk that failed subsequent to the
> backup. This backup contains (somewhere) all my PIM information -- in
> particular all my contacts, in multiple address books, and also my calendars.
>
> So my question is: how do I find and then import the PIM information from the
> backup disk so that I can use it on the 12.10 system?
>
> To try to avoid confusion, here is another way to describe the situation: I
> have a functioning 12.10 system with no PIM information. On this system I have
> a directory ~/home-backup/ that contains the complete hierarchy of a home
> directory from a system that contained my PIM information. How do I find and
> transfer the right files from the ~/home-backup/ hierarchy to the new ~
> hierarchy so that the PIM information is available to the new system?
>
this page on migrating kde-pim should give you some pointers:
http://userbase.kde.org/Kontact#Migrating_your_setup_to_a_new_distro

/Sinclair