[kdepim-users] Re: kdepim-users Digest, Vol 89, Issue 11

[Donald J. Stewart]

oops, left out 'File' under 'Please select type of the new resource', which is 
what I believe that I should select...

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Donald J. Stewart
www.soundexperiment.org
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On Monday, April 11, 2011 03:00:44 AM kdepim-users-request at kde.org wrote:
> 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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