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.
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.
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.