Bug 328449

Summary:	kaddressbook copy and paste contacts is broken badly
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] Akonadi	Reporter:	Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj>
Component:	VCard dir resource	Assignee:	Tobias Koenig <tokoe>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kdepim-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.11
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Hans-Peter Jansen 2013-12-05 12:19:11 UTC

A usual operation with contacts is to copy a contact and adjust the copied
contact, e.g. adjust name and email address of a college of some business
contact.

Doing so with current kde4 addressbook is badly broken in this respect. 

I'm using several contact sources, the one in question is a vcard folder,
shared with KDE3 desktops, but it also happens with folders managed by akonadi,
e.g. ~/.local/share/contacts/, as well as ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf, hence
I believe, it's a general kaddressbook (or akonadi) issue.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select an address, and copy it via context menu
2. paste address to this addressbook via context menu
Actual Results:  
The contact appears twice for a short time, but if you edit one to adjust name
and email address, the original contact is _replaced_ by the new one. This is
not, what copying contacts is about. 

Expected Results:  
Both contacts should be available steadily.

Comment 1 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 20:41:18 UTC

This bug has only been reported for versions older than KDEPIM 4.14 (at most akonadi-1.3). Can anyone tell if this bug still present?

If noone confirms this bug for a recent version of akonadi (part of KDE Applications 15.08 or later), it gets closed in about three months.

Comment 2 Denis Kurz 2017-01-07 22:43:26 UTC

Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.