address book problems

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sun Mar 21 10:33:34 UTC 2010


On Sunday 21 March 2010 03:11:36 John Aldrich wrote:
> On Saturday 20 March 2010, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I don't know - things are changing just too fast.  I've no idea where
> > the 'spam reports' comes from.  At one point I could use the akonadi
> > configuration to set a default addressbook - but that option doesn't
> > seem to be there any more - if it's moved, perhaps Rex or Kevin knows
> > where?
> > 
> > For the newly added addresses - did you add them to an addressbook that
> > is pointed to std.vcf?  According to the developers that's the prime
> > source of data, and the ~/.local/share/contacts is the cached data.
> > 
> > After that, I'm out of ideas.  It works for me, but it's immensely
> > frustrating when I can't even find the method I used to get it to work,
> > i.e. set the default addressbook.
> 
> I have no idea where I added them to. I added them to the address book that
> comes up when you click on "tools ->Address Book" I suspect that it's not
> the vcf enabled address book.
> 
Well that's a route I've never even noticed before - and it doesn't work here.  
I've always used one of two methods - to open kaddressbook (normally within 
kontact) and add them direct, or by right-clicking on the address in an email 
and 'Add to Addressbook'.  That then asks which addressbook I want to add to, 
and I select Personal Contacts.

Anne
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