address book problems

Eli Wapniarski eli at orbsky.homelinux.org
Sun Mar 21 17:55:00 UTC 2010


On Sunday 21 March 2010 19:45:03 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> On Sunday 21 March 2010 18:51:05 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 March 2010 15:34:05 John Aldrich wrote:
> > > Eli, Anne:
> > > I have tried Eli's suggestion and it does not help. I still cannot
> > > select or search for the spam report email address that I entered in
> > > the KMail address book. :-( It just does not show up.
> > > In addition, when I went back to the address book immediately after
> > > following Eli's instructions, that email address was not in there. Any
> > > suggestions on how to make it "save" that address book entry?
> > 
> > For clarity's sake, let's start afresh.  First, if you haven't set up the
> > tray icon (type akonadi into krunner and select it), do it now.
> > 
> > Right-click on the icon and select Configure.  List the addressbook
> > resources you see there.  For each one, check Modify and tell us where it
> > points to.
> > 
> > You will almost certainly see some 'Offline' messages - ignore them. 
> > It's a known bug that has no impact on your work.
> > 
> > Then open KAddressBook - either within Kontact or stand-alone and tell us
> > what addressbooks you have there.
> > 
> > We'll tackle your saving problem once we know exactly what you have and
> > haven't got set up.
> > 
> > Anne
> 
> I just tried to save a test new contact in a standard vcf file. I added the
> entry, pressed on OK and got a dialogue box asking me to select which
> address book I wanted to save the new contact in. But, it was completely
> blank.
> 

OK... This is getting weird. I just created a personal address book, and then 
it saved the contact in the address book that I have selected without asking. 
In my "Address Book" and my "Personal Address Book" After I removed the new 
"Personal Address Book" Things seem to be working just fine.

A thing that make you go hmmmm.

Eli

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