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Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Kontact save location?
From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson () googlemail ! com>
Date: 2011-11-04 20:21:20
Message-ID: 201111042021.20582.cannewilson () googlemail ! com
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On Friday 04 Nov 2011 Andreas Zeller wrote:
> Am 04.11.2011, 17:50 Uhr, schrieb Anne Wilson <cannewilson@googlemail.com>:
> > On Friday 04 Nov 2011 Andreas Zeller wrote:
> >> Am 03.11.2011, 12:25 Uhr, schrieb Anne Wilson
> >>
> >> <cannewilson@googlemail.com>:
> >> > On Thursday 03 Nov 2011 Andreas Zeller wrote:
> >> >> Am 02.11.2011, 17:25 Uhr, schrieb Anne Wilson <annew@kde.org>:
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> >> But ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc contains still contains empty
> >> >> files.
> >> >
> >> > Don't worry about that for now. If we can get your Personal Contacts
> >> > folder
> >> > to show the contacts you can drag copies of the contacts into the
> >>
> >> std.vcf
> >>
> >> > resource.
> >>
> >> Please tell me, how does it work. I can't figure it out.
> >
> > Now that you have one set of contacts showing, create a resource that
> > points
> > to ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf. It will be empty of course, but you
> > can
> > simply select a handful of contacts at a time from your
> > ~/.kde/share/apps/stdvcf/ addressbook and drag and drop them onto the
> > newly
> > created resource in KAddressBook. You will end up with a single file of
> > concatenated records.
>
> It works! Great.
>
> But why not use only this resource? It seems to be smart, comfortable and
> readable. And it still contains the pictures.
>
> > My personal feeling is that it is an extra security, to
> >
> > have both formats of addressbook.
>
> So you "backup" manually this way every now and then? Is there a different
> to export as vCard every now and then?
>
> Can both resources be linked, so every change is stored twice? I don't
> think so.
My addressbook goes back 10 years, so I'm more likely to be deleting addresses
than adding them. From time to time, though, I become aware that I've added a
group of addresses, and I do drag them into std.vcf. It's a personal thing -
the best way to keep your trousers up is to have belt, braces (suspenders in
some languages) and a piece of string :-D
Anne
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