How do i restore Knote?

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Hello everyone.
I would like to recover Knote notes from a backup, but I don’t know how to do it.
I’ve tried this without success:
akonadictl stop
Delete directory /home/ignace/.config/akonadi/
Copy .local/share/akonadi/ from backup to root of home directory.
akonadictl start

The computer with the Knote notes is down and I really need to recover these notes.
Does anyone have any idea how to do this?

Thank you in advance.

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I’m curious about that as well. Not that it’s that important to me as such because I think there is no proper note taking tool available, especially since I lost a ton of important notes because I simply couldn’t find them anymore. They were…pfoof…gone. That was Knotes btw. Imo, when it comes down to note taking stuff in kde…well. Even Mint has a far better sticky notes thingie than what is available in KDE for that matter. Since I have an android phone I figured I might as well use a note tool which I can access from a cloud and any device. And for the more to-do-ish stuff I use the to-do widget which DOES store my files in, as far as the doc on this goes, the proper directory so I can retrieve them.

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Here’s what I did. This is based on Ubuntu development build, but it should work regardless (knotes and akonadi haven’t changed much, or at all, in the last few years):

Preconditions:

  • You have a new machine where knotes is running, and you have no notes there (or no notes of interest), and also nothing else interesting stored in akonadi (KDE PIM stuff).
  • You have a backup of your ~/.config and ~/.local that contains something like this:
.config/akonadi/
... # other files under .config/akonadi/
.config/akonadi-firstrunrc
... # other files that start with .config/akonadi
.local/share/akonadi/
... # other files under .local/share/akonadi/

For the purpose of this exercise I’m assuming the backup is a tarball.

Instructions:

  1. Quit out of knotes
  2. Stop akonadi by running (in a terminal) akonadictl stop
  3. Restore your backup, for example tar -xvf akonadi-backup.tar.gz -C $HOME --wildcards '.config/akonadi*' '.local/share/akonadi'
  4. Run Knotes - it should start akonadi and migrate whatever configuration is needed.
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Hello everyone and to you both.
Sorry to reply so late, but I didn’t get any notification.
In a month, I’ve had time to find a solution.
A “Notes” folder on the desktop.
Inside, a text file for each note and it’s great, no more headaches.
That’s 28 files!
guss77, I knew about your solution, but it never worked for me.
Thanks to both of you.

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: ) you missed the part where akonadi is backed up.

$ tar -czf KnotesArchive20240430.tar.gz /home/USER.config/akonadi /home/USER/.local/share/akonadi

just say’in : )
Landis.

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I’m pretty sure I listed .local/share/akonadi in all the appropriate places. AFAIK the instructions from August 2023 are full and correct.

Your command is for creating the backup tarball and it misses a lot of .config files that are important and are not under the .config/akonadi/ directory. I suggest not using this command and in general: it is a good practice to backup your entire ~/.config and ~/.local folders.