address book problems

[John Aldrich]

On Sunday 21 March 2010, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 21 March 2010 17:37:14 John Aldrich wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 March 2010, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Two Address book entries, both point to ~/.local/share/contacts/
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > "Personal Contacts"
> > 
> > > We'll tackle your saving problem once we know exactly what you have
> > > and haven't got set up.
> > 
> > Sounds good. I did post a similar question in the KDE-PIM list and
> > Ingo Klocker said it may be because not everything is ported over to
> > Akonadi yet. Which begs the question, why make the changes to an app
> > without making sure the "fix" is ready? This is really what
> > frustrates me about major upgrades like this... I had a problem
> > several years ago that required a different email client for awhile,
> > so I tried an app called Pronto, but then they decided to make a
> > change similar to what KDE-PIM is doing and require a database.
> > Fortunately, at that time, whatever problem I'd had with KMail back
> > then was resolved, but it's frustrating when major changes like this
> > are made and the changes to the app are not complete when the update
> > is released.
> 
> Yes, I saw that comment and didn't understand it.  The thing is that
> (apart from the missing distribution lists and some fields not yet
> visible) kaddressbook works flawlessly here - I can even create a Group
> from the dialog that asks if you want to create a distribution list
> from the addresses in a mail.  Sometimes the reason someone's having a
> problem  is obvious, but sometimes it's just impossible to guess.
> 
> OK - Personal Contacts is your akonadi controlled addressbook - assuming
> that the migration went properly.  Just check ~/.local/share/contacts/
> and make sure you can see records there - if you can, that's one thing
> eliminated.
> 
> I'm really struggling to think of something that we haven't already
> checked. It seems unlikely to be a permissions thing, but I assume that
> you've already checked that.
> 
> Just remind me, which versions of Fedora, KDE and Kontact are you using?
> 
> Anne
>
Oh, one other thing I just noticed. In the Akonadi configuration, I also 
have std.vcf in there. Not sure if that makes a difference or not.