Migrating tomboy to notes

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Jose I. Diaz Bardales
<jose.dbardales at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 03/22/2013 06:19 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> I switched from Ubuntu to Xubuntu some time ago.  Almost everything
>> I was using made the transition just fine. Tomboy was an exception.
>> Under xubuntu, I have to use 'notes', and it did not pick up my
>> tomboy stuff.  I've ignored the situation long enough.
>>
>> However, a quick look at my old home directory does not reveal
>> where the tomboy notes actually resided.  Does someone know?  If I
>> can get them in any non compressed/encrypted form, I'll be happy.
>> I have excruciatingly complete backups if I need them.
>>
>> ++ kevin
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> Kevin
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> As Marius mentioned you can find all your Tomboy notes
> ~/.local/share/tomboy/
> and then move them all to the new directory
> ~/.local/share/notes
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> *Note* They should be just plain text files.

Ahah!!   There they are.  I had no idea there was a ~/.local/share.
Is this stuff really shared, or is that just a name?

It turns out that the tomboy notes are XML, and the Notes notes are
plain text.  That works fine for me.  I've found the content and can
deal with the rest.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman

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