Howard Coles jr is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says! > On Monday 09 April 2007 06:04:01 am Rick Miles wrote: > > Philip Rodrigues is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says! > > > > > Rick Miles wrote: > > > > originally: this annoys the p--s out of me. > > > > > > > > where in the heck is kde/kmail address book kept???? > > > > Thanks Philip, > > > > I have some things in my last /home backup under kabc don't know where > > the rest have gone. Probably the result of dragging the same /home/user > > directory through numerous re-installs, upgrades of both slack and kde. > > It'd be nice to just have something to plop ones's old .kde into anynew > > version or at least be able to backup\restore the critical stuff. > > > > > Look in ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc . The addressbook is std.vcf, and > > > backups are stored as std.vcf_<number>. So if your addressbook has been > > > eaten, just rename one of those backups (you probably want the most > > > recent one) to std.vcf . > > > > > > Regards, > > > Philip > > Well, the problem is newer versions of KDE store the files in different > places. And, if you keep your config directory kmail, kontact, and kabc rc > files along with your mail store directory everything will drag along just > fine. > > The problem isn't that the addresses are gone (well, they may be now if the > directory they WERE stored in is gone), the problem may very well be that > the config is pointing to a different location. if you do a search from > your home directory (or at least the .kde directory) you may find the > std.vcf in another location. That file may have all your addresses, and if > you copy it to the new locations and restart kontact (or just reload the > address book) you should find your addresses again. They were in my pre-upgrade backup and easily reinstalled by copying in -- Cheers, Rick Miles Movement stopped is no movement, and rest set in motion is no rest. Written on Sweetmorn, the 28th of Discord, 3173 http://www.turtlespond.net/ ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.