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.