Bug 121078

Summary: Kaddressbook loses data of whole vcf files
Product: kab3 Reporter: Claudius Wettstein <claudius.wettstein>
Component: generalAssignee: Tobias Koenig <tokoe>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 3.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Claudius Wettstein 2006-01-31 00:53:26 UTC 
Version:           3.5 (using KDE 3.5.0 Level "a" , SUSE 10.0 UNSUPPORTED)
Compiler:          Target: i586-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.13-15.7-default

Sometimes but regulary Kaddresbook shows suddenly an virginal empty addressbook in spite of a formerly well filled one. If so, the corresponding *.vcf file has smelt to 0 byte. If noticed soon, you have the chance to find a undestroyed automatically generated backup file e.g. kontakte.vcf_6 to be renamed without the _6 suffix. But sometimes Kaddressbook has already backed up the 0-byte-"adressbook" so many times, that all automatic back-ups are empty, too. In that case last hope is a working manual back-up of your  home-directory.

IMHO a serious bug, to live with the inherent danger of the whole addressbook get lost without any avoidable or predictible mistake by the user.
Comment 1 Tom Albers 2006-03-08 10:18:06 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 118924 ***
Comment 2 Tobias Koenig 2009-08-05 16:28:48 UTC 
The development of the old KAddressBook will be discontinued for KDE 4.4.
Since the new application has the same name, but a completly new code base we close all bug reports against the old version and ask the submitters to resend there reports against the new product.