after the upgrade to R14, my kmail address book seems to have disappeared.
(frankly, i've been a little cross ever since the simple one-line-per-address, plain text address book was deprecated ages ago in an attempt to be More Like Windows, but never mind.)
when i sought to use it after the upgrade, it was entirely empty.
did i miss a step? did it get moved? any recovery possible?
thanks.
Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2014, 10:53:36 schrieb dep:
after the upgrade to R14, my kmail address book seems to have disappeared.
(frankly, i've been a little cross ever since the simple one-line-per-address, plain text address book was deprecated ages ago in an attempt to be More Like Windows, but never mind.)
when i sought to use it after the upgrade, it was entirely empty.
addressbook should be $HOME/.trinity/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf maybe your old addressbook is in another location. you should be able to find it via
find $HOME -name std.vcf
HTH
Werner
said Werner Joss: | Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2014, 10:53:36 schrieb dep: | > after the upgrade to R14, my kmail address book seems to have | > disappeared. | > | > (frankly, i've been a little cross ever since the simple | > one-line-per-address, plain text address book was deprecated ages ago | > in an attempt to be More Like Windows, but never mind.) | > | > when i sought to use it after the upgrade, it was entirely empty. | | addressbook should be | $HOME/.trinity/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf | maybe your old addressbook is in another location. | you should be able to find it via | | find $HOME -name std.vcf | | HTH | | Werner
aha!
/home/dep/.trinity/share/apps/tdeabc/std.vcf /home/dep/.trinity/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf
hmmm. copied std.vcf from $HOME/.trinity/share/apps/kabc/ to $HOME/.trinity/share/apps/tdeabc/ and my address book has come back.
is this anomalous?
Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2014, 11:14:05 schrieb dep:
hmmm. copied std.vcf from $HOME/.trinity/share/apps/kabc/ to $HOME/.trinity/share/apps/tdeabc/ and my address book has come back.
good :)
is this anomalous?
no. of course, would be better if this happened automatically during the update- process, though.
Werner
Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2014, 11:14:05 schrieb dep:
hmmm. copied std.vcf from $HOME/.trinity/share/apps/kabc/ to $HOME/.trinity/share/apps/tdeabc/ and my address book has come back.
btw. this simple remedy is still a significant advantage of kdepim from trinity over the current kde4 version, where disaster recovery can easily result in a complete nightmare, as just too many things can go wrong with no comprehensive recipes for users available. on the other side, things like global search via baloo or google ressources are handy, admittedly.
Werner
said Werner Joss: | Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2014, 11:14:05 schrieb dep: | > hmmm. copied std.vcf from $HOME/.trinity/share/apps/kabc/ to | > $HOME/.trinity/share/apps/tdeabc/ and my address book has come back. | | btw. this simple remedy is still a significant advantage of kdepim from | trinity over the current kde4 version, where disaster recovery can | easily result in a complete nightmare, as just too many things can go | wrong with no comprehensive recipes for users available. | on the other side, things like global search via baloo or google | ressources are handy, admittedly.
during my admittedly brief foray into post-3x kde, i found nothing i wanted and much i didn't want. it made me wonder what the developers supposed it was to be good for.
so the occasional little bump -- such as the briefly lost addressbook -- is a small price to pay for a solid desktop. (though a little informational pop-up with instructions as to addressbook migration would be helpful, if there's some reason why the process can't be or shouldn't be automated.)
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On 12/24/2014 07:09 AM, dep wrote:
said Werner Joss: | Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2014, 11:14:05 schrieb dep: | > hmmm. copied std.vcf from $HOME/.trinity/share/apps/kabc/ to | > $HOME/.trinity/share/apps/tdeabc/ and my address book has come back. | | btw. this simple remedy is still a significant advantage of kdepim from | trinity over the current kde4 version, where disaster recovery can | easily result in a complete nightmare, as just too many things can go | wrong with no comprehensive recipes for users available. | on the other side, things like global search via baloo or google | ressources are handy, admittedly.
during my admittedly brief foray into post-3x kde, i found nothing i wanted and much i didn't want. it made me wonder what the developers supposed it was to be good for.
so the occasional little bump -- such as the briefly lost addressbook -- is a small price to pay for a solid desktop. (though a little informational pop-up with instructions as to addressbook migration would be helpful, if there's some reason why the process can't be or shouldn't be automated.)
There should not be any price to pay for a solid desktop :-) That might be something that slipped through testing and renaming. Could you file a bug report about this, so it doesn't get forgotten? Thanks Michele
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