migration destroyed my distribution lists

[Neal Becker]

Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Thursday 18 February 2010 12:20:26 Neal Becker wrote:
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>> > On Thursday 18 February 2010 00:45:50 Neal Becker wrote:
>> >> After migration, my distribution lists in kaddressbook now look like
>> >> random ascii garbage.
>> > 
>> > Please describe what you are seeing, and where.  Vague things like this
>> > give us no chance of helping you.
>> > 
>> > Anne
>> 
>> See attached.  'adg' is a dist. list.  It used to be a list of names.  It
>> looks to me, that the vcf file has a UID for each person, and the dist
>> list is a ref to these UIDs.
>> 
>> e.g:
>> X-KADDRESSBOOK-
DistributionList:;NmeHrnOTSK\,;2i4hfxBSOd\,;s6Q3CFWGtm\,;vq9
>>  
TCsQRbp\,;gtwnqAv0TZ\,;Ne9cQXQUB6\,;LqVX3rVhdr\,;HtXWCXJxhz\,;GBspyD2Rka\,
>> ; KAUdn8y7Wi\,
>> 
> That's not gobbledegook :-)  They are identification strings - more or
> less what you guessed.
> 
>> It's not just cosmetic (kosmetic?), I found out because I tried to send
>> to my dist list adg with kmail and it didn't work (did not expand adg to
>> the
>> list of recipients).  This worked fine before the upgrade to 4.4.
> 
> The old lists will not be migrated in a workable fashion, as the mechanism
> is
> not the same.  You need to identify the names that should be in your list,
> then create a group to put them in.  I think you will find that you can
> see
> them under ~/.local/share/contacts.  If you use the dolphin info panel you
> should be able to quickly see which contact each one refers to, then
> create your group with those names.
> 
> Groups are the start of distribution list functionality.  It's not
> completely functional yet, but at least you can hit the group entry, see
> the list of
> appropriate entries, then copy and paste into a mail.  The rest is still
> to come.
> 
> Anne


Since 'new group' is grayed out, that could be difficult.