Bug 296944

Summary:	Possible data loss if the destination folder doesn't exists
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] Akonadi	Reporter:	Alex Fiestas <afiestas>
Component:	Contacts resource	Assignee:	Tobias Koenig <tokoe>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	critical	CC:	jjm, pim-bugs-null, rdieter, vkrause
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.8
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/kdepim-runtime/20f02b27dcc43948f3f062f9dfded338232a24af	Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Alex Fiestas 2012-03-28 08:05:33 UTC

If for some reason (like what seems a bug in the distribution) the destination folder does not exists, KaddressBook (and the resource) will allow the creation of contacts and they will be stored in the akonadi cache.

Akonadi won't be able to synchronize the data since the folder does not exits in case that something happens to the mysql databse (or in case that we change to another database) we will suffer data loss :/

Maybe we should turn the resource offline in case that the folder does not exists or force the user to select another folder.

Comment 1 Jonathan Marten 2012-03-28 09:11:01 UTC

Is this the vcarddir Akonadi resource?  If so, bug 289565 may be similar or even a duplicate.

Comment 2 Harald Sitter 2012-06-04 05:13:54 UTC

Git commit 20f02b27dcc43948f3f062f9dfded338232a24af by Harald Sitter.
Committed on 04/06/2012 at 07:13.
Pushed by sitter into branch 'master'.

make sure the contacts resource creates its configured path

..to avoid silly errors
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

M  +3    -0    resources/contacts/contactsresource.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/kdepim-runtime/20f02b27dcc43948f3f062f9dfded338232a24af