Lightning calendar data file

Windows macOS Linux. Last updated:. September 7, User rating:. Lightning brings the Sunbird calendar to the popular email client, Mozilla Thunderbird. Downloading and Installing: Before installing, make sure your computer meets the system requirements. What's New: New: File link attachments can now be linked to again instead of uploading them again New: Mark all folders of an account as read New: Run filters periodically.

Improved filter logging. Preference intl. Workaround: start with option --allow-downgrade. See this support article for details. New: Calendar: Time zone data can now include past and future changes. All known time zone changes from to are included.

New: Chat: In each conversation an individual spellcheck language can be selected now Changed: Add-on support: Add-ons are only supported if add-on authors have adapted them Changed: Dictionary support: Only WebExtension dictionaries are supported now. So how do I get Lightning to display the original calendar and events that are stored in the file? That means it may not have caught up with recent file and folder structure changes, even if it is 1.

Chances are either the calendar data is not included in the backup, or it does not get restored properly. The local. Additionally you need preference entries in prefs.

If these are missing such as in a new profile , the calendar entries are unknown to TB and not visible. Likewise, the prefs. FWIW, I noticed local. If I copy the calendar-data folder content to a fresh profile AND the older pref. Try to rename a copy of the recent backup to. Also check and compare the entries in prefs. I just tested with 1. What it does not copy, is compatibility.

See here for more info on files in the profile. I have not tried to restore it to see what happens. In any case, make sure to do a manual copy and restore of your profile folder for backups in the future.

Also this question and this question may be of help, as well as this thread at mozillaZine. Search Support Search. Learn More. I have done so and will post here in case others find it useful. The script must be executed by an account that has access both to the published calendar e. It assumes only one calendar resides in the database, since that's all I have, but probably easy enough to identify distinct calendars.

For the sake of some simplicity, this script is not actually looping through all published calendars. It is simply generating an. I have done this manually and new events do now show up in Outlook -- which was my original goal. Now I can move workstations from Windows to Ubuntu one-by-one! Here you go, this looks a little messy, but I don't see an option on this forum to post "code". Let me know if there is a better mechanism and I'll repost:.

If no one has already done this, I'd like to create a script to read the. Why do I want to do this? Apparently Lightning does no update published calendars after the initial publication. I suggest you start there.

Its been replaced by local. Wandering around earlier today I had someone with issues related to this add-on. Or the source might be a good starting point for a new add-on. Thanks for that info. My web searches did not turn up the. I will peruse these as I have time. Your referenced Auto Export add-on would have been exactly what I need, but it does not work with Thunderbird version Too bad. The download page does say up to version I've written to the developer to beg him to update it.