In kaddressbook I used to create a tree of contact folders. I cannot do that anymore with version 5.6.1 (Kde Applications 17.08.1 compiled from sources in Debian testing). Steps. 1. Create a new empty user 2. In kaddressbook right-click in Personal Contacts 3. Select Add Address Book folder... 4. Add the name of the new subfolder I get a complaint: Could not create address book folder: Unable to append mimetype for collection as resourceId: 4 while I expect to create a new subfolder of Personal Contacts
Here’s a me too: I have a groupdav addressbook which I sync against a radicale server. My Android client works, and so does the main PC. But on my laptop the addressbook has been shown empty for a while now. Both run the same version of KDE and Plasma, currently 17.04.3 and 5.10.5. So today I deleted the address book and wanted to create it fresh, which resulted in the same error message “Unable to append mimetype for collection as resourceId”. I found this bug by web-searching for the error message. When I created the resource directly within Akonadiconsole (DAV groupware resource, manually configured), the addressbook was found on the server and I was able to add it. It also showed up in Kaddressbook, but the content was empty again.
Created attachment 115913 [details] Triggerring the issue
Created attachment 115914 [details] Error shown on screen
I am using kubuntu 18.10, with version 5.8.3, and the error is still happening.
I am using version 5.10.0 On OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (VERSION="20190115") and the issue is still here as well. Steps to Recreate: 1. Open KAddressBook 2. Right click on the folder 3. Select "Add Address Book Folder.." from the menu (First entry) 4. Enter a name for the new folder in the window that pops up 5. You will get the same error on the screen (Could not create address book folder: could not create collection [name entered in step 4], resourceId:4) I have managed to find a work around for the time being thanks to user @zahnd on KDE Forums (https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=215&t=143208) Work around: 1. Go to the directory which stores the KAddressBook contacts 1.1 You can find the address to this directory by right clicking on the Main folder in the KAddressBook > Address Book Properties 2. Create the folders you want 3. Come back to KAddressBook 4. Right click on the main folder and click Address Book Properties 5. Simply click the Okay Button to close the window 6. Your newly created folder will show up in KAddressBook.
For me it is the same problem still remaining. In the end, my workaround is switching to Mozilla Thunderbird and purging kontact completely from my systems.