[Kde-pim] Answering questions about akonadi etc - need clarification

[Anne Wilson]

When I first updated to 4.4 RC3, I think it was, I got akonadi handling 
addressbook for the first time.  I thrashed around a bit, trying to get 
understanding of what was happening.  The more I get into this, trying to keep 
everyone answered, the more I realise I don't understand what is happening.

Two days ago on #akonadi I asked about backing up.  Here is an excerpt:

[Monday 15 February 2010] [19:03:16] <annew>	steveire_: for backup of contacts 
- is ~/.local the only directory to back up now?
[Monday 15 February 2010] [19:03:30] <annew>	and will all akonadi data be under 
~/.local?
[Monday 15 February 2010] [19:50:20] <toma>	annew: i wrote a backup function 
for akonadi, it should be in the akonaditray
[Monday 15 February 2010] [19:50:31] <toma>	annew: but that's only the cache 
you are backing up
[Monday 15 February 2010] [19:50:54] <annew>	right - I saw that and thought it 
was backing up the configuration
[Monday 15 February 2010] [19:51:09] <annew>	so what do you recommend for 
backups of data?
[Monday 15 February 2010] [19:51:20] <toma>	annew: if you want a backup of 
your contacts, you better backup the original
[Monday 15 February 2010] [19:51:29] <annew>	is that all we need?
[Monday 15 February 2010] [19:51:45] <annew>	I added a new contact and it 
doesn't seem to be in the original addressbook
[Monday 15 February 2010] [19:51:52] <annew>	but it is in the .local one
[Monday 15 February 2010] [19:52:40] <toma>	annew: see where the resource 
point to. try shutting akonadi down and see if it is flushed to disk at that 
point
[Monday 15 February 2010] [19:53:22] <annew>	ok - so are the files under .local 
the cached files?
[Monday 15 February 2010] [19:53:29] <annew>	and the real ones in the original?
[Monday 15 February 2010] [19:53:55] <toma>	the original is where the 
resource points to in the config. 
[Monday 15 February 2010] [19:54:05] <toma>	it could be under .local, i don't 
know

Today I realised that the situation has not changed.  In the kaddressbook gui 
I can see the entry I made on Monday, but searching std.vcf within kwrite 
doesn't find it, so I decided to see what the tray icon could tell me about my 
setup.

It tells me that I have 5 resources -

Address Book - No KDE address book plugin configured yet.  This is the one 
that (presumably erroneously) I pointed to ~/.local/share/contacts.  Modify 
starts up the wizard, which I haven't followed through, because as I will 
explain, I don't know where it needs to point to.

std.ics - points to 
/mnt/servername_home/anne/.kde/share/apps/korganizer/std.ics

Local Folders - Offline - points to /home/anne/.local/share/local-mail

std.vcf - Ready

Personal Contacts - Offline

Going back to the display in Kontact, now, I have 

KDE Address Book - which is the one that was set up to point to 
~/.local/share/contacts, as a vcard collection.  This originally had all the 
contacts which were in the std.vcf, and I slimmed it down to only contain kde 
addresses.

Personal Contacts - which was set up as pointing to 
~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
	A sub-folder 'Club'

std.vcf - added as a traditional .vcf file.

The new contact I spoke of was added to Personal Contacts.

I can see the content I expected to see in all of these folders, so the 
question is, where are they being stored?  Without understanding this I can't 
sensible discuss backup procedures with users.

Then there's the question of that KDE Address Book.  It tries to run the 
configuration wizard if I attempt to look at the properties, and since I don't 
want to lose the addresses I have in there, I haven't a clue how to handle 
this.

Sorry that this seems so long, but getting answers to this will help me a 
great deal in understanding and being able to give correct answers to 
questions.

Anne
-- 
KDE Community Working Group
New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-pim/attachments/20100217/a7677411/attachment.sig>
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
KDE PIM mailing list kde-pim at kde.org
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim
KDE PIM home page at http://pim.kde.org/