address book problems

[John Aldrich]

On Sunday 21 March 2010, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
> 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.
>
Yep. That's correct. There are a bunch of .vcf files there.
> 
> 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.
>
Permissions are 40775, and I'm both the owner and the group.
>
> Just remind me, which versions of Fedora, KDE and Kontact are you using?
> 
Is Kontact the same thing as KMail? If so, the version of KMail is 1.13.1, 
KDE 4.4.1, Fedora 11.