[kdepim-users] Re: kdepim-users Digest, Vol 89, Issue 10

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 11 April 2011 05:01:13 Donald J. Stewart wrote:
> > > during this process, what have I done wrong?
> >
> > Nothing at all.  That's absolutely fine, but it has to get
> > populated.  This is  usually done by an automatic migration, and if that
> > failed you have to do something about it manually - not ideal, but not
> > too difficult.  So....
> >
> > Start the same process over, and we'll get your std.vcf installed as a 
> > resource next.  This time, in Manage Resources, select  VCard File and
> > polint  the address line to ~/.kde (kde4 in some distros)
> > /share/apps/kabc/std.vcf and complete the process.  When you restart
> > Kontact you should see that you now have an empty Personal Contacts and
> > an std.vcf resource with your old contacts in.  If you can't see it, use
> > Add Address Book from the right-click menu, and choose std.vcf.
> 
> OK, so I followed exactly what I did before, and as you said, selected
> std.vcf  here, and when I open Kontact again, I see that I indeed have an
> empty Personal Contacts folder...
> 
> ...but also an empty std.vcf file as well...
> 
> Both Personal Contacts and std.vcf in the Address Books column show 156
> files  that take up 0 bytes...and the Name column is completely blank
> 
> ...I know I have about 156 files in my std.vcf folder as I can open and
> look  at it in Kate, but it takes up 37 kb as I see in Dolphin...
> 
That is extremely odd.
> > 
> > Once you have that you can drag your addresses into Personal Contacts.
> 
> the problem is that there is nothing to drag into Personal Contacts...
> 
> > Finally, go back into the Management routine, and click the boxes for
> > Contacts  and Distribution lists to be added to Personal Contacts.  Also,
> > before you leave the System Settings page, highlight Personal Contacts
> > and click Set as Standard.
> 
> I have only akonadi-resource in this file, but within akonadi-resource is 
> Address Books and Resource Settings and this is where I added Personal 
> Contacts and std.vcf...should I add these on their own somewhere?

That could be the problem.  The place to add std.vcf is on the very first 
screen that you meet - System Settings > Configure KDE Resources > Add.
> 
> > 
> >
> > That should get you sorted.  Come back if you get stuck, but you seem to
> > have  managed the first part fine, so you should be OK.
> 
> I must be doing something wrong as I have done this routine 100 times with
> the  same results...there are a few others on gentoo forums who have not
> solved this as well...

Try adding std.vcf as a vcf file resource to that first page, then tell us 
whether you then have addresses visible in KAddressBook.

Anne
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