gnote data imported to cherrytree

["Germán A. Racca"]

On 07/06/2012 11:30 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 08:17 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 07/06/2012 01:51 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> Since at least F16 Fedora has included a progrwam for taking notes
>>> called cherrytree seemingly a substitute for gnote or Tomboy.
>>>
>>> Now when you choose the import option one of the sub-options is to
>>> import daqta from tomboy. Now tomboy does not exist since it was
>>> succeeded by gnote. My impression is that tomboy and gnote used the same
>>> dat structures but I can't get cherrytree to import my gnotw data.
>>> Is cherrytree the future. If so does anyone know how the gnote data can
>>> be imported into cherrytree?
>>
>> Tomboy stores its notes in .local/share/tomboy according to
>> https://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/Directories.   gnote stores its notes in
>> .local/share/gnote.  Perhaps you can create the tomboy directory and
>> copy from latter to former and see if cherrytree picks that up.
>>
>> Rahul
>>
>
> Well I copied the gnote directory in to a tomboy directory.
> However, I can't get cherrytree to display a directory (i.e. .local)
> which is hidden. How would one do that?

I think you don't need to copy from one directory to the other, just 
leave notes in gnote directory (~/.local/share/gnote), then select 
import from tomboy, and in the open file dialog just right click and 
select something like 'show hidden files' ;-)

HTH,
Germán.

>
> My second attempt is to copy the tomboy directory to /tmp. Now the filwe
> is available to cherrytree but clicking open has no effect,
>
> So how can the transfer of databases be done?
>

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Germán A. Racca
Fedora Package Maintainer
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