[kdepim-users] so where did my address book go now??

Jerome Yuzyk jerome at supernet.ab.ca
Wed Nov 23 17:00:56 GMT 2011



On Wednesday, November 23, 2011 01:50:42 AM Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk> 
wrote:
> On Onsdag den 23. november 2011, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > On Sunday, November 20, 2011 11:59:11 PM Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk>
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > On Mandag den 21. november 2011, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > > > On Sunday, November 20, 2011 12:57:03 PM Anders Lund
> > > > <anders at alweb.dk>
> > > > 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > On Søndag den 20. november 2011, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > > > > > KMail 1.13.7 on KDE 4.6.5 on Fedora 15
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > After upgrade from Fedora 14 my address book has disappeared
> > > > > > again and I can't find how to get it back. Where should I be
> > > > > > looking?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi Jerome,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Look in the Personal Information module of systemsettings.
> > > > > 
> > > > > First, in the Akonadi resources section, make sure you have a
> > > > > contacts resource, and that it points to your addressbook. You
> > > > > can create an extra one if needed.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Then, in the KDE resources secton, make sure your contacts
> > > > > contains "akonadi contacts" and that they are enabled and set
> > > > > as the default.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hope this helps :)
> > > > 
> > > > I do have those things enabled. But it seems the file containing
> > > > the data is gone. I don't have a ~/.local/share/contacts, the vcf
> > > > files in ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc are all empty, and
> > > > ~/.kde/share/apps/kaddressbook is empty. Where else would I look?
> > > 
> > > Create a akonadi resource that points to the file in
> > > ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc, or point the existing one there.
> > 
> > Problem is, there's nothing there. I don't know where my old address
> > book was to grab it from a backup and put it in place for Akonadi to
> > see.
> > 
> > I imported my KDE3 addressbook (as a CSV) into KDE4 some time ago and
> > never understood where it went - it just worked.
> 
> Did you look inside ~/.local/share/contacts then?


I would, but I don't have one. I have other directories in ~/.local/share, 
but no contacts.
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