Hello,

I was trying to assist a friend of mine in migrating contacts and calendar data from Kontact into NextCloud but ran into a snafu with the import not bringing in every contact saved in Kontact.
I've had a lot of trouble finding information and manuals for Kontact for some reason.

Anyway...

Whenever I open Kontact, I get an error about Akonadi personal information management service not being operational and can not use the software in order to export data from it.

I installed MariaDB and had to change the root password for MySQL/MariaDB (Which I'm assuming Kontact uses) in order to get NextCloud operational.

I'm would like to know where the main configuration file for Kontact is located so that i may update it post-NextCloud install or even where Kontact stores the saved contacts, calendar entries, etc at so that I may finish my work with filling in the gaps in NextCloud's import


Thank you for your time.

Usually the MySQL instance used by Akonadi runs as your own user. Did you change it to use system-wide?
The database doesn't store anything (unless < 4K).
The data should be in ~/.local/share or ~/.local/share/akonadi. I don't use local contacts, so I'm not sure on the exact name of the file.