[kdepim-users] Kontact save location?

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 01 Nov 2011 07:35:08 dirk wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 31 Oct 2011 09:42:39 Andreas Zeller wrote:
> >> > What are all these std.vcf and std.vcf_x files for (especially given
> >> > that they are all empty)?
> >>
> >> Welcome to my world (see "Kaddressbook lost contacts 11.10 upgrade"
> 
> from
> 
> >> 22. October 2011)
> >>
> >> std.vcf should contain the data and the other appear to be backups, I
> >> assume. These files are empty even in my backups for weeks and months.
> >> Since KDE4 the data is handled by a Database called Akonadi.
> >
> > If your backup files are empty, dating back for weeks and months, it
> > cannot be
> > in any way related to Akonadi.  It sounds as though you have been
> 
> happily
> 
> > using addresses from Recent Addresses, saved in the kmail config files,
> > without realising that you had lost data.
> 
> KAdressBook started to use Akonadi with KDE 4.4 already and if I go back
> in my incremental backup I find valid *.vcf files in
> ~/.local/share/contacts

Copy those into your current ~/.local/share/contacts and make sure your 
akonadi resource points to it.

> and 0 byte std.vcf* files in
> ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc dating back to my earliest backups of this machine
> in January 2011 (see also http://userbase.kde.org/KAddressBook which
> refers currently to version 4.4).
> 
Empty files - so no point in backing up those files.

> KDE 4.4 was introduced in Kubuntu with 10.04. If one of the kubuntu ppas
> was in use that might be different.
> 
Anne
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