[turba] Confusion using /turba/scripts/upgrades/public_to_horde_share script

[Andy Wright]

>
> Why not just copy the data from the shared table into the non-shared 
> table?

Because that would be way too obvious ;-)   I was thinking the same 
thing last night but was unsure about how the owner_id value would be 
treated - but you have clarified this for me below...
>
> After you run the public_to_horde_share script, every entry in the 
> shared table has the same owner_id value, which looks something like 
> this: ad60cc4ce7102b3aac2420aedbc664c1.  If any of your users added 
> contacts to their "Shared Address Book", then there will also be 
> entries in the table that have actual usernames as the owner_id.  When 
> you merge the tables, any entries with the username in owner_id field 
> will appear in the user's (existing) default address book.  Any entry 
> with the longer owner_id will appear in the shared address book. You 
> should be able to just copy the data from the shared table to the 
> non-shared table and then set use_shares => true on that source...then 
> comment out your second source in sources.php.  This will result in 
> the user seeing his/her default address book and the shared address book.
>
I'll give it a go....

> If you are making use of any synching code, I'm not sure how this 
> would affect the history.
>
> Of course, you will want to *make a backup of these tables* before you 
> do this! - I have not done this myself, but see no reason why this 
> wouldn't work...
>

Luckily we have never done any syncing....
> Hope this helps.
>

Certainly does - Thanks ! :)

Andy.