Op 23-11-11 07:32, [email protected] schreef:
> On 22/11/2011 14:41, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>> Op 22-11-11 10:31, Julian Robbins schreef:
>>> On 21/11/11 20:57, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>>>> Op 21-11-11 16:55, Julian Robbins schreef:
>>>>> On 21/11/2011 15:48, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After installing the new Lighning plugin from the Sogo site, my
>>>>>> calendars are read-only. After installing version 3.105 again
>>>>>> everything
>>>>>> works fine.
>>>>> You may have to recreate the cache files in calendar-data in your
>>>>> users
>>>>> Thunderbird profiles.
>>>> How do you do that?
>>> In Linux, you'll find a .thunderbird in your users home dir, in Windows
>>> type in %Appdata% in the run box and you get to your user's 'documents
>>> and settings' folder. Go to Thunderbird. Then you'll see a
>>> 'calendar-data' sub folder.
>>>
>>> In here you will see 2 (possibly 3) files.
>>>
>>>      * cache.sqlite
>>>      * caldav-acl.sqlite (possibly only seen with lightning 106i)
>>>      * local.sqlite (if you had any calendar events stored locally in
>>>        Lightning before)
>>>
>>> I'm not an expert on this, but if you delete the .sqlite files (when
>>> Thunderbird isn't running), and restart, then Thunderbird will recreate
>>> these files again as a local cache of calendar events and tasks. This
>>> might take a few minutes, and Thunderbird won't respond to normal
>>> requests whilst its doing this.
>>>
>>> Likewise the caldav-acl file (much much smaller in size) I believe is
>>> the acl data, permissions on your lightning/sogo calendars.
>>>
>>> You can of course look at these files, and edit them if you want with a
>>> sqllite browser such as the GPL SQLite Database Browser In Linux and
>>> Windows too.
>>>
>>> I've found that if you get issues with broken calendars, quite often its
>>> because the cache data isn't the same as that on the server. The server
>>> is likely to be correct. Sometimes, events are deleted from the sogo
>>> server, but aren't properly deleted from the local cache, due to issues
>>> with permissions.
>>>
>>> This is a trick I use sometimes if I get problems, your mileage may
>>> vary. I've also found that deleting the cache files helps if a user
>>> somehow ends up upgrading to Thunderbird 7/8 with its newer lightning
>>> version, and you need to go back to Thunderbird 3.1 with SOGo. I think
>>> there was a significant change in working with acl between sogo
>>> lightning builds of 105 and 106, and same in std lightning builds, which
>>> this can help correct, if necessary.
>>>
>>> Might be handy if Inverse can comment or have any further docs on how
>>> these cache files work, to better fully understand what happens.
>> Thanks for the information, this can be handy in case of problems.
>>
>> But I don't think this is a nice upgrade path for my customers... There
>> are not so many, but this is complex to explain.
>>
>> Not sure this happens all the time, I've tried it on two machines now,
>> and both have this problem. Are here other people who have this problem
>> or don't have this problem after upgrading to 3.106 ?
> yep
> While migrating from thunder 2 to thunder 3.16 we have a lot of
> calendars which "hangs" with the 3.106 extension. the main thunderbird
> interface does'nt show and the only way i have is to kill the
> thunderbird process and destroy the sqlite files. Then i can restart
> thunderbird.
> What's more some calendars are very long to get their cache after
> destroying it ( 20min for a 8Mo cache.sqlite ?????) . the other problem
> is that the main thread of thunderbird doesn't respond while the
> extension is trying to get the cache.
> i'm searching explications or solutions too

For me the migration is from extention 3.105 to 3.106 on the same
version of Thunderbird. I did it with Thunderbird 3.1.12, a customer
with the latest Thunderbird 3.1, I believe it's 3.1.16.

Strange that I don't read much in this group about this kind of problems.

With regards,
Paul.


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