Bug 244153

Summary: Moved addresses are not stored in vcf file until they are modified
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] Akonadi Reporter: Thomas Bleher <ThomasBleher>
Component: libakonadiAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: dvratil, kde, kdepim-bugs, krammer, tokoe, vkrause
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Thomas Bleher 2010-07-10 20:11:00 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.4) 
OS:                Linux

When addresses are moved between address books, they are not stored in the backing file immediately. Only after the address is edited (even without any change) does the address get saved (it always saved to the database, but not to the real file)

Background story:
I recently switched from KDE 3.5.9 to KDE 4.4.4 (by moving from Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze); my addresses from ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf were correctly imported, but updates were not written to the vcf file, only to the mysql DB (i.e. updates were visible in kaddressbook, even after a restart, but the vcf file was never touched).
Trying to solve this, I created a new address book (also as a vcf file, under ~/.local/share/contacts.vcf). I moved all addresses to the new adressbook using kaddressbook. This also worked, but the file remained empty. Surprisingly, new addressses were immediately visible in the file! Also, entries were stored in the vcf file after I opened them to edit them and immediately clicked "Save".

However, this is very unsatisfying, because I have several command line tools which read the vcard file directly, so I need to have it up-to-date. And manually saving 600+ contacts is quite tedious.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
* Create two address books, both backed by a vcf file (no read-only mode set)
* Create two contacts, one in each address book
* Move the first contact from the first to the second address book
 

Actual Results:  
* The vcf file that backs the second address book contains only one address, the one that was added directly

Expected Results:  
* Both addresses should be visible in the address book
Comment 1 Kevin Krammer 2010-07-25 14:06:14 UTC 
That sounds a lot like the bug I recently fixed in 4.5 branch:
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/4.5/kdepimlibs/akonadi/monitor_p.h?view=log

Anyone still having a 4.4 build around for backporting?
Comment 2 Tobias Koenig 2010-08-02 20:54:12 UTC 
@Kevin

This patch alone doesn't solve the problem. I can still reproduce the bug. Is there any server change involved?

Ciao,
Tobias
Comment 3 Kevin Krammer 2010-08-02 21:10:32 UTC 
Yes, I am pretty sure there is a server change involved as well.
Volker should know, he found and fixed the problem in trunk and I think he backported the server side change, but I have no idea which version that went into
Comment 4 Nicolas L. 2011-04-11 10:25:21 UTC 
is there some news about this issue ?
Comment 5 Daniel Vrátil 2013-03-03 00:37:06 UTC 
As Kevin mentioned ,this should be fixed already for some time and I was unable to reproduce the issue with Akonadi/KDE PIM.