Bug 214929

Summary:	Lost all contacts and unable to save new contacts
Product:	[Unmaintained] kab3	Reporter:	Bobby <bobby.culture>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	tokoe
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Bobby 2009-11-17 08:19:17 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.3)
Compiler:          GCC 4.4 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

I lost all my contacts that were imported from KDE 3.5.x to KDE 4.1 after updating to KDE 4.2 some months ago. I tried to import the contacts again but got this message: "Address book file /home/bobby/.kde/share/apps/kab/addressbook.kab not found! Make sure the old address book is located there and you have read permission for this file."
The address book is actually here:/home/bobby/.kde/share/apps/kaddressbook but the path is set to import from the aforementioned path. How can this be changed and why isn't the right path set?
I got this message after I was asked if the existing adresses should be overwritten. Funny enough the adress book is empty! At least to my eyes.
If I try to add an address to the adress book then I get this error message: "The resource '/home/bobby/.kde4/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf' is locked by application ''.
This has been going on like that for months now and hadn't been changed with all the updates that I have made.
If I can't import the old adresses then at least I would like to be able to save new ones.

Comment 1 Bobby 2009-12-07 09:51:19 UTC

Am Dienstag 17 November 2009 10:00:24 schrieb Tobias Koenig:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214929
> 
> 
> Tobias Koenig <tokoe@kde.org> changed:
> 
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Component|general                     |general
>             Product|kaddressbook                |kab3
> 

Kontact is totally messed up on my system. I can't import or save any e-mail 
address/contacts, can't save any tasks, appointments - nothing. if I try to 
save these then I get an error message that no resource can be found. Whatever 
that means.

Comment 2 Bobby 2009-12-12 13:58:31 UTC

This bug can actually be closed. 
It seems like something went wrong while updating openSuse (not sure which version since I have been using updated version since 10.something) a way back and that was what could have caused the problem. 
What I did was backed up my mail folder and deleted /.kde4. After which I got the new mail folder overwritten by the old and it worked. All my contacts are there and I haven't lost a single e-mail in the process. The only thing that I had to do after was to recreat my e-mail accounts in KMail.
Everything is now working fine :)