Bug 193599

Summary:	sometimes contacts are deleted from the address book
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Miguel Tadeu <mtadeunet>
Component:	addressbook	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	alexander.balzer, bjoern, finex
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.11.90
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Broken address-book

Description Miguel Tadeu 2009-05-22 04:07:46 UTC

Version:           1.11.90 (using 4.2.85 (KDE 4.2.85 (KDE 4.3 Beta1)), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.28-11-generic

Sometimes some of the contacts that I have in the address book just disappear. Today, I got from 91 contacts to 31. This has been happening since the version from kde4.2.3.  I'm using a vcf file to store the contacts.

Comment 1 Miguel Tadeu 2009-06-05 05:33:11 UTC

I think this is has to do with a remote access to the vcf file. I'm using fish to access my contacts at work. I'm not very sure, but I think each time the file is saved, I lose some contacts from the contact list.

Comment 2 Alexander Balzer 2009-06-26 11:43:43 UTC

Yesterday I lost almost all (183 of 207!) contacts! This is horrible. Since my backup of the contact files is 1 week old and there where many changes in that time.

This already happened twice (after that I started making backups of my contacts once a week)

Currently I'm running KDE 3.5 on opensuse 11

Comment 3 Miguel Tadeu 2009-06-26 16:15:24 UTC

I think this is about the resource, which a remote file using the fish kio....can anyone confirm this?

Comment 4 FiNeX 2009-06-27 15:18:55 UTC

It seems a grave bug. Are you using the resource through akonadi?

Comment 5 Miguel Tadeu 2009-06-27 15:25:17 UTC

No through Akonadi. I'm using the "Network(Provides access to contacts in remote files using KDE's network framework KIO.....) resource directly.

Setting as read only solved the problem, but I'm restricted on access.

Comment 6 Alexander Balzer 2009-06-27 22:09:36 UTC

I use no akkanodi. Just Kontakt and Kmail ...

Comment 7 FiNeX 2009-06-28 11:47:24 UTC

@Alexander: exactly in which version did you have the data loss?

Comment 8 Alexander Balzer 2009-07-06 20:10:51 UTC

I use OpenSuse 11.0 with KDE 3.5.10 and Kontact 1.2.9

Comment 9 Alexander Balzer 2009-08-03 10:01:57 UTC

Created attachment 35807 [details]
Broken address-book

I decided to give kontact a last chance and wanted to import lost addresses from a csv file. So I looked which addresses still exists in kontact and noticed that most of them are crap. The names are cut and the phone numbers are wrong or even not valid and in the wrong field. Maybe this info helps to fix this bug.

Comment 10 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 10:17:18 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.