[kdepim-users] Kontact save location?

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 04 Nov 2011 Andreas Zeller wrote:
> Am 04.11.2011, 17:50 Uhr, schrieb Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>:
> > On Friday 04 Nov 2011 Andreas Zeller wrote:
> >> Am 03.11.2011, 12:25 Uhr, schrieb Anne Wilson
> >> 
> >> <cannewilson at googlemail.com>:
> >> > On Thursday 03 Nov 2011 Andreas Zeller wrote:
> >> >> Am 02.11.2011, 17:25 Uhr, schrieb Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org>:
> >> [...]
> >> 
> >> >> 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.
> >> 
> >> Please tell me, how does it work. I can't figure it out.
> > 
> > Now that you have one set of contacts showing, create a resource that
> > points
> > to ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf.  It will be empty of course, but you
> > can
> > simply select a handful of contacts at a time from your
> > ~/.kde/share/apps/stdvcf/ addressbook and drag and drop them onto the
> > newly
> > created resource in KAddressBook.  You will end up with a single file of
> > concatenated records.
> 
> It works! Great.
> 
> But why not use only this resource? It seems to be smart, comfortable and
> readable. And it still contains the pictures.
> 
> >  My personal feeling is that it is an extra security, to
> > 
> > have both formats of addressbook.
> 
> So you "backup" manually this way every now and then? Is there a different
> to export as vCard every now and then?
> 
> Can both resources be linked, so every change is stored twice? I don't
> think so.

My addressbook goes back 10 years, so I'm more likely to be deleting addresses 
than adding them.  From time to time, though, I become aware that I've added a 
group of addresses, and I do drag them into std.vcf.  It's a personal thing - 
the best way to keep your trousers up is to have belt, braces (suspenders in 
some languages) and a piece of string :-D 

Anne
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