[kdepim-users] Kontact save location?

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 03 Nov 2011 Andreas Zeller wrote:
> Am 02.11.2011, 17:25 Uhr, schrieb Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org>:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > That looks very odd.  *Something* is wrong, whether it is Krusader or
> > your file system generally.  You really are going to have to talk to
> > the *buntu lists.  Sorry.
> 
> EUREKA! I've got it! :D
> 
> I copied my backup of /home/user (before update) on a laptop which still
> runs Kubuntu 11.04. And after restart, the contacts are shown immediately,
> without doing any configurations!
> 
> But ~/.local/share/contacts still doesn't exists, ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc
> still contains only empty files and ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/stdvcf still
> doesn't exists.
> 
This has to be a Kubuntu issue, and I've never used Kubuntu, but I'm certainly 
intrigued by it.  There has to be some way of finding out where it is looking.

> Akonadi Console brows says Personal Contacts 332 Total Size 681,9 KiB but
> the Akonadi Ressource (Type: Personal Contacts) referes to
> ~/.local/share/contacts (which doesn't exists).
> 
> But anyway, I can see my contacts and so I exported them as vCard3.0
> (kates show readable and reasonable content) and imported them in my
> Desktop (Kubuntu 11.10 KDE 4.7.2 KAddressbook 4.7.2)
> 
> DAMNED! I can't see my contacts! :(
> 
> I tried import several times, now there are 225 files in
> ~/.local/share/contacts/ like 0OM4DuwOee.vcf

That sounds correct - each of those is one personal vcf contact file.

> and in
> ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/stdvcf/ are 332 files like 0gA6f6LFP7 (btw why 225
> and 332 files?) 

Don't know - but possible some README or system files in that one?  That 
address bothers me, though.  ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/stdvcf/ is a directory - 
which is not standard KDE practice.  Are you saying that your vcf. files are 
there?  If so, presumably that is where Kubuntu put them?

> But ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc contains still contains empty
> files.
> 
Don't worry about that for now.  If we can get your Personal Contacts folder 
to show the contacts you can drag copies of the contacts into the std.vcf 
resource.  Remember that should be ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf - rather 
like an MBox file the records are concatenated.  If you use System Settings > 
Personal Information > KDE Resources to set these up, Personal Contacts should 
be of the type Folder.  The important bit is to make sure that your std.vcf 
resource is set to *be* a vcf file, so try deleting the existing std.vcf 
resource and creating a new one of type File.  We will use this to make your 
~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf file usable.  Personally, I like to keep that as 
a backup, in case anything goes wrong with Akonadi resources or for moving to 
a different computer.

> In "Systemsteuerung" I have "Persönliche Kontakte" referring to
> ~/.local/share/contacts/ (containing 225 files), running

I'm wondering if the resource type is wrong.  

> and "Adressbuch"
> format vCard referring to ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/stdvcf (containing 332
> files) also running.
> 
Since both of these now contain individual records, both should be of Folder 
type.  Try setting up one or both of them again, watching carefully when it 
asks you what type of addressbook you need.  If in doubt, tell us what your 
options are - somebody here probably knows enough German to be able to help us 
if it's not obvious.

> KDE resources says for "Kontakte" Default Address Book Type file,
> standard, referring to ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf

That sounds right - but depends on us getting the addresses into std.vcf.

> I tried to add
> another resource, called akonadi-resource Type akonadi, read only. In the
> folder list are "Adressbuch" (~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/stdvcf) and
> "Persönliche Kontakte" (~/.local/share/contacts/). Unfortunately I can not
> remove the read only and so I can't set it to standard.
> 
I don't think that one is going to help.  Try setting up the Folder type one 
as I said above.

> But I still can't see my contacts. Unfortunately I have only a two-tiered
> view with Contact-list on the left an contact details on the right.
> http://imagebin.org/182139 I can't find a way to the tripartite view with
> addressbooks, contact-list and contact details.
> 
I'm not sure, but this may be a version issue.  It's fine in the version I'm 
running here, but I downgraded from the version in 4.7 and can't remember how 
it was there.  Until we get something to show for you we can't tell whether 
that's good enough or not.

> I tried to restart the PC, remove an re-install KAddressbook - no contacts
> shown.
> 
> I also tried to add addressbook folders. They are stored in
> ~/.local/share/contacts/ but contain only WARNING_README.txt In KDE
> resources the are also listed under "Persönliche Kontakte".

That's where you should be seeing them, yes.  I'm rooting around for things 
that we may have missed :-(  It's unlikely  to be the problem, but check 
permisions and ownership of the files in ~/.local/share/contacts/.
> 
Also try pointing that resource to ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/stdvcf/, again, 
assuming that you own the files created there.

> Please help me.

Doing our best ;-D

Anne
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