[kdepim-users] Cannot restore Custom Fields after reimporting vcard from previous KDE insallation

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/4/29 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
> After updating from Ubuntu 7.04 (KDE 3.5.8) to Ubuntu 8.04 (KDE 3.5.9)
>  I have imported my ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf file to
>  KAddressBook. However, the Custom Fields that I have defined are
>  empty. Of course, the new KDE installation did not have the custom
>  fields, so I created them, being careful to use the exact same names
>  as before. I can see that the custom field data is intact by opening
>  the vcf file with Kate, however, KAddressBook is not showing the info.
>  Which file should I recover from 3.5.8 in order to enable the custom
>  fields? Thanks in advance.
>

Update: it seems that the problem is related to this bug:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161033

That explains other problems that I've been having as well. Warning to
those with UTF-8 characters in their custom fields.

Dotan Cohen

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