[tomboy-list] importing tomboy notes

[Sandy Armstrong]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Mike Turquette<mturquette at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have two machines that I use tomboy notes on.  Using sshfs I tried
> to synchronize them via local directory sync, but that has failed
> abysmally.

Did you follow the direction in the Help document?  Chances are it was
set up improperly (yes, it is kind of counter-intuitive to set up,
that's why we're working on Snowy).

> I've had to diff my notes, manually figure out which ones are more
> recent and store the combined set of notes in a temporary directory.

Yikes, that sounds like it was a pain. :-/

> Now that all of that is done I have two questions:
>
> 1) does Tomboy has a good way of importing Tomboy notes?  I have all
> of the notes in a directory, but my attempts of forging a manifest.xml
> by hand have not gone well.

The manifest.xml is not necessary unless you are using sync.  It is
not something you need to create manually, ever.

All you need to do is make sure Tomboy is not running on the "new"
login, copy all of your backed-up *.note files into ~/.tomboy, and
start Tomboy.

> 2) what is the best way to synchronize notes between two PCs?  I like
> the direction snowy is headed but I would like a solution until snowy
> is released

At this time the only supported way to synchronize your notes is to
use the built-in Synchronization feature.  If you need help setting
this up, feel free to ask questions in here, or in #tomboy on GIMPNet.

Best,
Sandy