I have lots of tasks in an ICS calendar with reminders set to ‘1 minute before the event starts’. As I’m changing my workflow, I’d like to delete these reminders without replacing them.
I assume these lines are the reminders:
BEGIN:VALARM
DESCRIPTION:
ACTION:DISPLAY
TRIGGER:-PT1M
X-KDE-KCALCORE-ENABLED:TRUE
END:VALARM
Can I simply delete this code, or will that cause new problems?
Normally, in the ‘~/.local/share/apps/korganizer/’ directory or, the calender directories below that directory, there’s at least one “WARNING_README.txt” file with the following content:
> cat WARNING_README.txt
Important Warning!!!
Don't create or copy files inside this folder manually, they are managed by the Akonadi framework!
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Reading the warning, you’re neither creating nor copying a KOrganizer Calendar file and therefore simply doing a bulk edit on the .ics file may work but, you’ll have to exit Kontact/KOrganizer and stop Akonadi before you begin with the edit.
If that doesn’t work, you’ll have to restore your KOrganizer content and, contact a Kontact developer to help you with a KOrganizer script to perform the bulk change to all your tasks.
Thanks for mentioning that!
Actually, in my .local/share/apps/korganizer directory, there are only std.ics and std.ics~, and no subdirectories either.
However, I only use calendar files outside of the home directory, in fact on a different partition. But I assume these are also monitored by Akonadi.
Is File > Quit enough to exit Kontact/KOrganizer? Will no processes continue to run in the background then?
My plan was to remove (unregister) the relevant calendar from KOrganizer, edit it, and then add it back to KOrganizer (with the same name). Is that also a possible way?
quit kontact
then run akonadictl stop
then edit the ics. change just 1 event by removing the VALARM section as you mentioned above.
then start kontact again and see if the change worked as intended.
if so, you can do the same again but this time change all the events as desired.