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Subject:    [Kde-pim] Addressbook data loss again
From:       Michael Reiher <michael.reiher () gmx ! de>
Date:       2006-01-09 21:40:35
Message-ID: 200601092240.35964.michael.reiher () gmx ! de
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Hi

There was no response on my last message, so I'd like to bring this up again, 
as data loss is probably the worst that can happen.

I'm (and obviously others as well) experiencing occational data loss with the 
addressbook and the std.vcf resource for quite some time now. The problem is 
not only that the data gets lost, but also that the automatically created 
backup copies are silently overwritten with the empty addressbook. Which 
means they are pretty useless.

I did some experiments and perhaps found a possible explanation for what's 
going on. My suspicion is that another process (koragc) has locked the 
resource and kaddressbook doesn't check and notice that. But at the same time 
saving also doesn't fail because of that. Instead an empty address set is 
returned and saved i.e. data is lost!

For more details and my patches please see 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87163

It would be really great if somebody with more insight in kaddressbook and the 
resource handling could have a look at this. If the real cause can't be 
found, at least the backup handling should be made safer.

Greets 

Michael
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