Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (176 mails)

[Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 27 Oct 2010 09:16:20 David Jarvie wrote:
> On Tue, October 26, 2010 11:29 pm, Bob Williams wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 Oct 2010 23:16:20 phanisvara das wrote:
> > > [darn, again i sent this reply to the original poster accidentally,
> > > instead of to the list. think i have to drop opera and switch over to
> > > knode...]
> > >
> > > On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:32:27 +0530, Bob Williams
> > >
> > > <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Actually, ~/.kde4/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf appears to be exactly the
> > >
> > > file
> > >
> > > > I'm looking for. Opening it in an editor shows it to be a text file
> > > > containing all my contacts, each entry starting with
> > > > BEGIN:VCARD
> > > > and ending with
> > > > END:VCARD
> > > > But Kontact/KAddressbook seems to have forgotten how to open the file
> > >
> > > try adding it to your "KDE resources" via KDE systemsettings. you'll
> > > find
> > > these 'resources' under 'personal information' in the first line, if you
> > > view systemsettings in icon view.
> >
> > Aha! In the Contacts window, some time ago I had hidden the resources
> > pane, as
> > I only use one address book and it uses screen space. Sliding it open
> > again
> > revealed my Address Book, together with several other choices including
> > two
> > entries called Personal Contacts, and five versions of std.vcf. I guess I
> > must have added those in my attempts to get it working earlier today.
> >
> > Many thanks for your help.
>
> See http://userbase.kde.org/KAddressBook_4.4 for more details, following
> the links within that page if necessary.

Thanks. That's a useful resource (pun intended).

Bob
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