On Sunday 21 March 2010 20:34:10 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2010 17:55:00 Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > On Sunday 21 March 2010 19:45:03 Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > > On Sunday 21 March 2010 18:51:05 Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > On Sunday 21 March 2010 15:34:05 John Aldrich wrote: > > > > > Eli, Anne: > > > > > I have tried Eli's suggestion and it does not help. I still cannot > > > > > select or search for the spam report email address that I entered > > > > > in the KMail address book. :-( It just does not show up. > > > > > In addition, when I went back to the address book immediately after > > > > > following Eli's instructions, that email address was not in there. > > > > > Any suggestions on how to make it "save" that address book entry? > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > We'll tackle your saving problem once we know exactly what you have > > > > and haven't got set up. > > > > > > > > Anne > > > > > > I just tried to save a test new contact in a standard vcf file. I added > > > the entry, pressed on OK and got a dialogue box asking me to select > > > which address book I wanted to save the new contact in. But, it was > > > completely blank. > > > > OK... This is getting weird. I just created a personal address book, and > > then it saved the contact in the address book that I have selected > > without asking. In my "Address Book" and my "Personal Address Book" > > After I removed the new "Personal Address Book" Things seem to be > > working just fine. > > > > A thing that make you go hmmmm. > > Strange. Personal Contacts seems to be the default label for the migrated > addressbook. After talking to one of the developers I wrote up what he had > told me on > http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi_and_AddressBook#Examining_your_Resources > > I'm not sure how that tallies with what you saw - does it help at all? > > Still, the main thing is that you have it working now, although I'd love to > know the reason. > > Anne I'd have liked to have known the reason as well. However here's a bit more weirdness... I just added the "Personal Contacts" and it appeared OK. And it seemed to have synced my contacts just fine. Then I deleted my "Address Book" and they both disappeared. Then added the "Personal Contacts" again and my contacts appeared. I can save and delete just fine. sigh.... "I soooo confused" :( :D Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
