I just upgraded my Debian Squeeze box to KDE 4.4.3. I had to do some fiddling with Akonadi to get Kaddressbook working at all, but it's not showing my old contacts or distribution lists. Where are they, and how can I migrate them?

Good news and bad news. When everything happens in the right order the migration is automatic. When the order goes wrong you end up with a newly created, but empty, Personal Contacts addressbook. Your old std.vcf should still exist, so step 1 - add that as an addressbook. Step 2 - copy all your contacts into the new addressbook - drag and drop is fine. Step 3 - you can drop the old addressbook. If you don't, you need to set the new one as the default - instructions on userbase. At that point you should have a fully working addressbook which can (and should) be backed up. Check out all the info on the userbase pages for KAddressBook and Akonadi.

The bad news is that currently distribution lists are not working - that is, currently in terms of distro packages. The maintainer has backported a fix to migrate distribution lists, but this is only a few days old and has not yet hit the distros. Distribution lists, as such, will be replaced by Groups. Hopefully this fix should (and according to the maintainer does) make Groups work in the way that distlists did.

There is still a problem of some of the data fields not being visible. If you check any vcard in a text editor you will see that it is not lost. By the next release all the fields should be visible and working again.

Thanks Annew, but could you tell me where the heck my old std.vcf is located? I couldn't find it in any of what i tought would be the obvious places.

By the way, since I've got you here... if you can find anyone else to help with the Kword manual for the time being that would be great. My wife has been really sick lately, and under the circumstances my two-year-old daughter needs her daddy more than the Kword manual needs doing. If it'll keep for a couple of months I'm expecting things to smooth out a little by July or so.

2handband wrote:Thanks Annew, but could you tell me where the heck my old std.vcf is located? I couldn't find it in any of what i tought would be the obvious places.

It's normally in ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/ - not kaddressbook, as you might expect

By the way, since I've got you here... if you can find anyone else to help with the Kword manual for the time being that would be great. My wife has been really sick lately, and under the circumstances my two-year-old daughter needs her daddy more than the Kword manual needs doing. If it'll keep for a couple of months I'm expecting things to smooth out a little by July or so.

Your efforts are appreciated. If I can get help I will, but if not, don't worry about it. A few more weeks won't make so much difference. I'm a bit pushed myself at the moment, with family problems, or I'd help. Still, I'll try to find someone.