Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.5) Installed from: Debian stable Packages Reported in Debian BTS at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=302240 Ok, here's the situation: I have a directory filled with some vcards. I want KAdressbook (KAB) to handle this directory like a real adressbook, so i import it via: add adressbook -> directory -> "read-only unchecked!" and format: vcard. The import works well, all contacts are correctly shown. Now I edit a contact but instead of changing the actual file of this specific contact, KAB creates a new one (in this directory) so my contact appears twice! I think, this is not the behaviour most users expect.
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:45:42PM -0000, Olivier Vitrat wrote: Hi Olivier, > I have a directory filled with some vcards. I want KAdressbook (KAB) to > handle this directory like a real adressbook, so i import it via: add > adressbook -> directory -> "read-only unchecked!" and format: vcard. That's the wrong way, you should never modify the vcard directory KAddressBook is working on manually or give KAddressBook an already existing one. KAddressBook will keep the vcards in such a Directory AddressBook by its own schema, e.g. the files have the UID of the contact as name, so when you rename the files or store names with random names there KAddressBook won't work correctly. To fix this problem for you to the following: 1) Create an _empty_ directory 2) Create a Directory AddressBook which points to this directory 3) Import the contacts from your old directory _via_ KAddressBook into the Directory AddressBook Ciao, Tobias
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.