[kdepim-users] Kontact save location?

[Kevin Krammer]

Hi Andreas,

On Friday, 2011-11-04, Andreas Zeller wrote:
> Am 03.11.2011, 12:25 Uhr, schrieb Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>:

> Now I wan't to reorganize the recourses.
> 
> KDE Address Book (traditional), stored in ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/stdvcf
> contains 332 files like 0zOAxp8Uzi (without file extension) and seems to
> work fine.
> 
> Personal Contacts, stored in ~/.local/share/contacts/ contains 225 files
> like N2Hc4XYPUi.vcf But there are some contacts lost and no pictures
> stored.
> 
> So is it a good idea to remove Personal Contacts in the Akonadi Resource
> Configuration? What about the files in ~/.local/share/contacts/ ?

Theoretically the Personal Contacts should be able to handle the same data. My 
guess is that the loss happend during automated import of one into the other.

There is nothing wrong with just keeping the data in 
~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/stdvcf but the so called traditional address book 
resource could be a bit problematic [1].

Depending on whether you want to check out alternatives you could do two 
things
- copy the contents of stdvcf directory to another director (so the orginal 
remains safe) and point either a vcard directory resource or a personal 
contacts resource to that directory
- clear out the personal contacts resource you have (either through 
kaddressbook or by stopping akonadi and removing all files in 
~/.local/share/contacts/) and copy the contacts from the traditional address 
book (again either through KAddressBook or by file copy with akonadi stopped).

> And what about the BACKUP?
> http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi_and_AddressBook#Organising_Backups (and
> even the German Version) is not really helpful. My home-backup will
> contain all files in ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/stdvcf but restore (copy) them
>  from a backup will cause inconsistency in the database, am I right?

That shouldn't be a problem. The resource will not pick up changes in the file 
system automatically (if I rememeber correctly), but an addressbook reload or 
Akonadi restart should do that.

> I can't fount Akonadi tray icon.

That application is called akonaditray, should be part of the kdepim-runtime 
module (which also contains the resources).

> Is there a way to backup/export akonadi recourses automated?

Not yet. We had a Google Summer of Code student working on that but the code 
isn't anywhere near usable right now.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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