Re: Where does Kontact save contacts?
[This is a follow-up to an old thread, therefore I've left the context
below.]
On Monday 21 June 2010, Michael Schuerig wrote:
> > > So, the interesting question remains: where are my contacts?
> >
> > It seems they are currently only in the cache.
> > You can try this:
> > create a vcard resource, chose any filename.
> >
> > Copy the contacts to that resource.
>
> I have created a single file vcard resource, copied all the contacts
> there and deleted them from the original resource. Then I have copied
> everything back and re-sync'd the resource and now, apparently, it
> keeps the directory contents synchronized. So now it works, although
> I can't say exactly why.
As it happens, the day I wrote the above paragraph is the date of the
latest .vcf file in ~/.local/share/contacts. I have added contacts since
then, but they are *not* saved in files at that location.
Also, in KMail trying to select a recipient by searching in Address book
"Contacts" doesn't find anything at all. "Recent Addresses" does work.
Michael
On Monday 21 June 2010, Michael Schuerig wrote:
> On Monday 21 June 2010, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Monday, 2010-06-21, Michael Schuerig wrote:
> > > On Monday 21 June 2010, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > > On Monday, 2010-06-21, Michael Schuerig wrote:
> > > > > I'm flabbergasted. I thought I understood where and how
> > > > > Kontact/KAddressbook saves contact data, i.e. in
> > > > > ~/.local/share/contacts. So it says in the properties for my
> > > > > "Personal Contacts" address book. Well, if I change any
> > > > > contact information, Kontact does save it somewhere, as the
> > > > > change is still there are a restart. But the change does
> > > > > *not* show up in that directory.
> > > > >
> > > > > The address book is not marked as "read only" and the
> > > > > directory is writable. KDE is from current unstable.
> > > >
> > > > That sounds like a bug, the resource should have written the
> > > > file moments after the contact got added to Akonadi.
> > > >
> > > > Can you run "akonadiconsole" and check what the status of the
> > > > resource is? When you click on it, the bottom section should
> > > > show something like "Status: Online, Idle"
> > >
> > > The resource is online, idle an has been every time I looked. In
> > > the meantime, I've restarted Kontact multiple times, but as far
> > > as I can tell from the modification times and file contents in
> > > that directory, changes are not written. Neither are they picked
> > > up, when I change one of the .vcf files there manually.
> >
> > Can you check on the second tab, when you click on the folder of
> > the personal contacts resource, if all entries listed on the right
> > hand side have a "remote id"?
>
> All but one entry have remote ids. The one missing an id is the one I
> created for testing previously. I don't think I have created any
> other contacts recently.
>
> > > So, the interesting question remains: where are my contacts?
> >
> > It seems they are currently only in the cache.
> > You can try this:
> > create a vcard resource, chose any filename.
> >
> > Copy the contacts to that resource.
>
> I have created a single file vcard resource, copied all the contacts
> there and deleted them from the original resource. Then I have copied
> everything back and re-sync'd the resource and now, apparently, it
> keeps the directory contents synchronized. So now it works, although
> I can't say exactly why.
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Michael Schuerig
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