Bug 234376

Summary:	kontact/kadr akonadi? Problems to add/show new contacts, additional errors in calendar
Product:	[Applications] kaddressbook	Reporter:	Andreas Kahnt <andreas.kahnt>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	andreas.kahnt, tokoe
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Andreas Kahnt 2010-04-14 19:11:30 UTC

Version:           4.4.2 (using KDE 4.4.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I put html-text by cut/paste in note field of one contact. On 'ok' an error complaining special text occurred and I removed that text. It needed multiple edit/save cycles to remove all special chars - meanwhile I had to edit some dates in calendar. 

Everytime I saved anything I got an error like "Received item with unknown payload text/directory"(contact) or "Unable to retrieve added item 1 764."(calendar).

For each new contact the field "name"(column left of contact details) but the "Display Name" field is appropiately filled when I edit the contact. Additional these new contacts are "shown" on any search, on double-click at the empty fields the edit dialog appears. But I cannot export these contacts, the application complains "You have not selected any contacts to export" - if I select the new ones together with old ones (with visible display name in "Name" column) only the visible contacts become exported.

How do I have to clear the errors?

Andi

Comment 1 Andreas Kahnt 2010-04-16 12:56:43 UTC

After a reboot:

- I only get this error if I edit one of the contacts I created before the reboot: "Unable to write to file '/home/aka/.local/share/contacts//': Unknown error"

- There are no other errors and 

- I can export the two contacts.

Comment 2 Tobias Koenig 2010-04-16 17:10:52 UTC

Hej,

it seems your files in $HOME/.local/share/contacts/ are messed up somehow and do not contain
valid vCards. Have you copied in there files manually?

To solve this issue I'd recommend to first remove the 'Personal Contacts' address book
from KAddressBook, then inspecting each file in $HOME/.local/share/contacts whether it
contains a valid vCard and removing all files that do not.

Note that the names of the file must be the UIDs of the vCards they contain.

After the cleanup you can add the 'Personal Contacts' resource again and everything should
work as expected.

Ciao,
Tobias

Comment 3 Andreas Kahnt 2010-04-16 18:01:57 UTC

I've nothing done manually in this dir.

The two vcard files for the contacts I added were not in this dir. I added them using the export I did. Then I reactivated the address book as you described - there are NO errors.

Thank you!