Nightmare in PIM-land

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sun Apr 29 17:59:51 UTC 2012


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On 25/04/12 23:55, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
>>> Sadly, it is impossible to add a Contact to a Group in an
>>> Address Book; it appears for a few seconds, then disappears. I
>>> see that this has already been reported to the KDE Bugzilla 
>>> (bug 294556 "Can't add Kontacts to a Group in Kadressbook"); 
>>> I've added a comment confirming the problem.
>>> 
>> I'm back in Mageia now, so got a chance to test 4.8.2.  I was
>> almost right about the process, it's right click on the group
>> name, Edit the group, then a window should open for editing.
> 
> Are you sure? I just checked this on my laptop. If I right-click on
> the group name in an addressbook I'm offered three choices: New
> Contact, New Group and Edit Group. If I click on New Contact, a
> window opens as you say, but if I add a contact it appears in the
> address book, but not in the group. If I click on Edit Group I can
> add a contact to the group, but (bizarrely) it disappears after a
> few seconds.
> 
>> The good news, though, is that the group did still have contacts 
>> listed that I entered some months back.  At one time it used to
>> lose them regularly, so it looks as though at at least is
>> improved.
> 
> Not in my case; there seems to be no way of adding a contact
> permanently to a group.
> 
No idea.  I sent back into Kontact today and tried to edit a group.
This time it didn't crash (not sure if there has been updates since I
last tried).  It said 3 contacts didn't exist any more, but I could
add a new one.  I checked some time later and it was still there.

Did you say you are on 4.7.x?  I'd certainly update if that is so.
Not all is solved, but much is improved.

Anne
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