I really need some help here TWW! I'm stumped:

I'm currently dual booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. Today, when using windows 7, I exited sunbird and later put it into hibernation. Unfortunately, I forgot about the hibernation and booted into Ubuntu next. I tried opening sunbird, where I got a few errors and .... a blank calendar. I've switched back and forth between windows and ubuntu several times since then and I cannot seem to display my calendar files again. I thought maybe the profile.ini was pointing to the wrong location, but I checked this in ubuntu and it looked correct!

Is there any way to recover my calendar files (preferably as ics, but doesn't have to be)? I'm really in need!

9/27/2010 10:21:42 PM

install Thunderbird or Seamonkey
load up the Lightning extension
find the Sunbird calendar files in its application data directory (probably C:\Users\faget\AppData\Roaming\Sunbird\)
put them in the Lightning extension directory, which is inside the application data directory for Thunderbird or Seamonkey

9/27/2010 10:35:57 PM

Thanks for the response. This is what I got so far:

I use thunderbird already. I tried adding the lightning extension to thunderbird, but I think it's refusing to install since ubuntu is on thunderbird 3.0.4 and win7 is on thunderbird 3.1.4 (both say they're fully upgraded btw). This is why I didn't just go w/ Lightning to begin with and not deal w/ Sunbird.

So, I tried Seamonkey w/ Lightning 1.0b1. The sunbird directory you mentioned is the one i've been looking in, but I cannot find the .ics files I was hoping for.

I hope that helps, but so far I haven't had any luck w/ that Any more ideas?

9/27/2010 11:41:07 PM

the format is .sdb, based on SQLite: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/faq.html#format

also try this while you wait for Maverick: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/thunderbird-31-ubuntu-ppa-repository.html

9/28/2010 12:20:45 AM

When you say:

Quote :

" find the Sunbird calendar files in its application data directory (probably C:\Users\faget\AppData\Roaming\Sunbird\) put them in the Lightning extension directory"

Do you mean copy the whole folder? I'm not sure what I should be copying

9/28/2010 12:29:29 AM

look for the files with the .sdb extension

if that path I gave you didn't work, try \AppData\Local\ instead of \AppData\Roaming\

[Edited on September 28, 2010 at 2:40 AM. Reason : Windows uses backslashes

9/28/2010 2:39:53 AM

YESSSS! It worked. Thanks alot man, I really appreciate it. You saved me alot of time and heartache!

9/28/2010 8:38:29 AM