On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:05:58 +0530, Bob Williams

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Ouch! This could be a showstopper for me using KDE 4.5.x

All my contacts in KAddressbook have suddenly disappeared. I can't think of anything specific I might have been doing to trigger this. I don't look at my contacts very frequently, so I don't know when it happened, but it was sometime in the past 3 or 4 days.

In Kontact > Contacts I have tried File > New > Add Address Book, where I selected VCard File. I browsed to ~/.kde4/share/apps/kabc where I selected std.vcf but my Contacts list is still completely empty.

I have Nepomuk running. When the Akonadi server starts up, it reports an error, but the list of files have all got green checkmarks except two with red crosses, which were called something like 'Previous akonadi error log found'.

Anything else needed to debug this?

i _think_ the location of address books / files has changed. you might find them somewhere else in your ~/ directory. if you remember one of the contacts in detail, you could search ~/ for it. remember to enable hidden files/directories, and search for the content of the file, not only file name, using konqueror's find function (ctrl+F). not sure if this will help, but it might...

-- phani. Good idea, but it didn't find anything new, unfortunately. In fact, it found

On Tuesday 26 Oct 2010 17:43:50 phanisvara das wrote: the old KDE3 std.vcf files from last year, but did not find anything in ~/.kde4/share/apps/ Thanks, Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.31.14-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.5.2 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 26 Oct 2010 23:02:27 Bob Williams wrote:

On Tuesday 26 Oct 2010 20:25:10 Bob Williams wrote:

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On Tuesday 26 Oct 2010 17:43:50 phanisvara das wrote:

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On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:05:58 +0530, Bob Williams

wrote:

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Ouch! This could be a showstopper for me using KDE 4.5.x

All my contacts in KAddressbook have suddenly disappeared. I can't think of anything specific I might have been doing to trigger this. I don't look at my contacts very frequently, so I don't know when it happened, but it was sometime in the past 3 or 4 days.

In Kontact > Contacts I have tried File > New > Add Address Book, where I selected VCard File. I browsed to ~/.kde4/share/apps/kabc where I selected std.vcf but my Contacts list is still completely empty.

I have Nepomuk running. When the Akonadi server starts up, it reports an error, but the list of files have all got green checkmarks except two with red crosses, which were called something like 'Previous akonadi error log found'.

Anything else needed to debug this?

i _think_ the location of address books / files has changed. you might find them somewhere else in your ~/ directory. if you remember one of the contacts in detail, you could search ~/ for it. remember to enable hidden files/directories, and search for the content of the file, not only file name, using konqueror's find function (ctrl+F). not sure if this will help, but it might...

-- phani.

Good idea, but it didn't find anything new, unfortunately. In fact, it found the old KDE3 std.vcf files from last year, but did not find anything in ~/.kde4/share/apps/

Thanks,

Bob

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 :(

Bob

But if I start a New email in Kmail, I can see all my contacts in the To: Selector. Very odd. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.31.14-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.5.2 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org

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

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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. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.31.14-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.5.2 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org

On Wednesday 27 Oct 2010 09:16:20 David Jarvie wrote:

On Tue, October 26, 2010 11:29 pm, Bob Williams wrote:

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On Tuesday 26 Oct 2010 23:16:20 phanisvara das wrote:

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[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

wrote:

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Actually, ~/.kde4/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf appears to be exactly the

file

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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 -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.31.14-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.5.2 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org

On Wednesday 27 Oct 2010 12:40:34 Anne Wilson wrote:

On Tuesday 26 Oct 2010 23:06:47 Bob Williams wrote:

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But if I start a New email in Kmail, I can see all my contacts in the To: Selector. Very odd.

What you see there are the addresses that you have recently used. These are stored in kmailrc, and not in your addressbook.

Anne

But it shows the whole of my address book. I only e-mail a subset of the whole, indeed some people who are listed there don't have an email address. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.31.14-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.5.2 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org