Hiya.

I've already migrated a few machines over and could make everything run as it's supposed to.
The latest PC however deleted all addressbooks and V-Cards after I had checked if everything was working (contacts showed up at first).

Can I recover the contacts from within akonadi or is akonadi using files stored in:

~/<user>/.kde4/share/apps/kabc
?

All files vanished after Kontact crashed trying to receive new e-mails. They got however replaced with new, empty files which is bad.

This is the first time I don't have back-up data

Any ideas?

Arch Linux i686
kdepim 4.6.1
kdepimlibs 4.6.5

First - are there still records in ~/.local/share/contacts? If so, create a new resource pointing to that, even if you have to delete an old resource. If not, you should still have your old std.vcf in ~/.kde/share/kabc. You could add that as a resource, then copy all the addresses (drag-n-drop) into the Personal Contacts folder.

Thank you for your quick reply.

Unfortunately there aren't any records left in any of the config directories (.config , .local)
The files left in ~/.kde4/share/apps/kabc/ are 0 B -.-

A shot in the dark, but is this because the resource is not checked in kaddressbook? I had a bit of a scare recently when I thought all my contacts disappeared, but it's just because the new kaddressbook has a checkbox next to a resource that needs to be checked on to display the contacts...