This is my desktop system: oS v11.3 / kde v4.4.4 -- doon to be upgraded to v11.4 /v4.6. Until now, I had thought that Akonadi and addressbook were in reasonable condition: The Kontact Contacts window displays "Personal Contacts" in the left column and a long list of contact names in the center column. When I enter a name in the To field of the Composer window, the corresponding email address is supplied, even for new or revised contacts that were added the same day. But what I have seen "under the hood" makes it hard to see why it works at all. In ~/.local/share/contacts, I find a large number of individual files with cryptic names, not a one of them dated in 2011 (although I add and alter contact details regularly). This is where Personal Contacts should be residing; obviously it is not. In both ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/ and ~/.kde4/share/apps/kabc/ , where the Vcard file should be, there is a file (identical in both), named std.vdc, which is what one would expect to find there. except that its size is 0. It is dated 03/17/2011, nearly two weeks ago, whereas I most recently edited Personal Contacts yesterday and today. And the major question is: WHERE is the file that contains the "Personal Contacts" listing in the middle coloumn? From where does it automatically supply the email addresses of contact names for outgoing messages? (It also knows telephone numbers and other data, of course). If I knew that, I would be able to copy that file in some way to the laptop machine on which I will be relying for two weeks beginning on Thursday. How can I find that file? Repairning Akonadi can wair until later. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org