contacts disappear from kaddressbook

[Miguel Tadeu]

Contacts keep mysteriously disappearing from kaddressbook. I noticed this because in kopete I have the contacts linked to the kaddressbook contacts. After a while, kopete contact names just started to show up in blank.

So right now, I can't figure out if the problem is in kopete or in kaddressbook.

Please feel free to ask anything to debug this problem.

Using jaunty fully updated

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in kdepim.
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[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

Well this only seems to happen when kopete is running....that's why I didn't choose a package. The problem can be in kdepim or in kopete

[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

Version: 1.11.90 (using 4.2.85 (KDE 4.2.85 (KDE 4.3 Beta1)), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler: cc
OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.28-11-generic

Sometimes some of the contacts that I have in the address book just disappear. Today, I got from 91 contacts to 31. This has been happening since the version from kde4.2.3. I'm using a vcf file to store the contacts.

[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

I think this is has to do with a remote access to the vcf file. I'm using fish to access my contacts at work. I'm not very sure, but I think each time the file is saved, I lose some contacts from the contact list.

[Alexander-balzer (alexander-balzer)]

Yesterday I lost almost all (183 of 207!) contacts! This is horrible. Since my backup of the contact files is 1 week old and there where many changes in that time.

This already happened twice (after that I started making backups of my contacts once a week)

Currently I'm running KDE 3.5 on opensuse 11

[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

I think this is about the resource, which a remote file using the fish kio....can anyone confirm this?

[FiNeX (finex)]

It seems a grave bug. Are you using the resource through akonadi?

[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

No through Akonadi. I'm using the "Network(Provides access to contacts in remote files using KDE's network framework KIO.....) resource directly.

Setting as read only solved the problem, but I'm restricted on access.

[Alexander-balzer (alexander-balzer)]

I use no akkanodi. Just Kontakt and Kmail ...

[FiNeX (finex)]

@Alexander: exactly in which version did you have the data loss?

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

What version of KDE? (if you upgraded beyond what is provided by default)

[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

This happens on kde4.2.x and kde4.3(beta 2)

[Miguel Tadeu (mtadeunet)]

I think I isolated the problem and I looks like it's about having a remote file(using fish kio) as a resource under kontact.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193599

[Alexander-balzer (alexander-balzer)]

I use OpenSuse 11.0 with KDE 3.5.10 and Kontact 1.2.9

[Alexander-balzer (alexander-balzer)]

Created attachment 35807
Broken address-book

I decided to give kontact a last chance and wanted to import lost addresses from a csv file. So I looked which addresses still exists in kontact and noticed that most of them are crap. The names are cut and the phone numbers are wrong or even not valid and in the wrong field. Maybe this info helps to fix this bug.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Please refer to the KDE bug for status updates on this issue. Once fixed in KDE it will arrive shortly therafter in Kubuntu too.

[Montel-3 (montel-3)]

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.