Bug 168722

Summary:	Loss of contacts using VCard addressbooks
Product:	kab3	Reporter:	albert <alberthilbert>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Tobias Koenig <tokoe>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description albert 2008-08-08 10:41:10 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.0)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

If you use a VCard folder addressbook, KAddressbook stores the contacts in files named FirstName__Surname.vcf. If you try to insert or import a new contact with a yet existing pair of FirstName, Surname, KAddressbook let you do it but on reload the contact is lost! In the past versions that didn't happen because contacts were stored in the form: UniqueId.vcf.

Comment 1 Tobias Koenig 2008-09-04 17:02:27 UTC

hmm, looking at the code I can see that first name or family name is used,
we use the uid for that since ages...
Could it be that you have tried to export vcards to that directory accidently?

Ciao,
Tobias

Comment 2 albert 2008-09-13 12:10:17 UTC

Tobias,
sorry but I can't understand your comment...
Even on kde 4.1.1 if I export my contact list to a VCard3 folder, each entry is stored in a file named FirstName_FamilyName.vcf. If two contacts have the same FirstName and FamilyName fields, one of them is lost.
For that reason I reopen the bug.

Comment 3 Tobias Koenig 2009-08-05 16:37:22 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.