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

Hello,

System: Ubuntu 10.4

Situation: I store each contact in its own vCard file. There are three directories for Work, Familly and Friends. They were added using the kaddressbook File / New / Add an addressbook menu function. But this is a recent arrangement, so to cleanup my collection, I still have to sort my contacts into the right directories. I proceed by dragging a contact from the "Work" addressbook to the "Familly" addressbook (repeat n times, using also the "Friends" target). It works apparently. Even when I restart the kaddressbook and akonadi, the contacts stay where I put them.

Problem: The files are not actually moved, so when I reset the akonadi/kaddressbook setup (too often) my sorting is lost.

More justification: Segregating professional from personal contacts is important to me because of privacy worries at backup time. And the critical reason I use kontact, therefore kde is that it supports maildir, and I believe that one information item per file is the only sane way to go.

A workaround is probably to move the files directly. But this is inconvenient, because one has to cat each file to see its content. And should I ignore the WARNING_README.TXT in the vcards directories that says one should not do that ?

Thanks for your attention.