On Sunday 21 March 2010, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2010 17:37:14 John Aldrich wrote: > > On Sunday 21 March 2010, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > For clarity's sake, let's start afresh. First, if you haven't set > > > up the tray icon (type akonadi into krunner and select it), do it > > > now. > > > > > > Right-click on the icon and select Configure. List the addressbook > > > resources you see there. For each one, check Modify and tell us > > > where it points to. > > > > Two Address book entries, both point to ~/.local/share/contacts/ > > > > > You will almost certainly see some 'Offline' messages - ignore them. > > > It's a known bug that has no impact on your work. > > > > > > Then open KAddressBook - either within Kontact or stand-alone and > > > tell us what addressbooks you have there. > > > > "Personal Contacts" > > > > > We'll tackle your saving problem once we know exactly what you have > > > and haven't got set up. > > > > Sounds good. I did post a similar question in the KDE-PIM list and > > Ingo Klocker said it may be because not everything is ported over to > > Akonadi yet. Which begs the question, why make the changes to an app > > without making sure the "fix" is ready? This is really what > > frustrates me about major upgrades like this... I had a problem > > several years ago that required a different email client for awhile, > > so I tried an app called Pronto, but then they decided to make a > > change similar to what KDE-PIM is doing and require a database. > > Fortunately, at that time, whatever problem I'd had with KMail back > > then was resolved, but it's frustrating when major changes like this > > are made and the changes to the app are not complete when the update > > is released. > > Yes, I saw that comment and didn't understand it. The thing is that > (apart from the missing distribution lists and some fields not yet > visible) kaddressbook works flawlessly here - I can even create a Group > from the dialog that asks if you want to create a distribution list > from the addresses in a mail. Sometimes the reason someone's having a > problem is obvious, but sometimes it's just impossible to guess. > > OK - Personal Contacts is your akonadi controlled addressbook - assuming > that the migration went properly. Just check ~/.local/share/contacts/ > and make sure you can see records there - if you can, that's one thing > eliminated. > > I'm really struggling to think of something that we haven't already > checked. It seems unlikely to be a permissions thing, but I assume that > you've already checked that. > > Just remind me, which versions of Fedora, KDE and Kontact are you using? > > Anne > Oh, one other thing I just noticed. In the Akonadi configuration, I also have std.vcf in there. Not sure if that makes a difference or not.
