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On Sunday 19 September 2010 14:11:55 you wrote: |
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> I have tried changing resources in systemsettings to akonadi directory, |
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> instead of .kde4/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf, but still cannot see any |
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> contacts. |
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> When entering an address in a new message To: field, the address book seems |
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> to be used because autocompletion works. |
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> This is happening on both an amd64 (sqlite) and a x86 box (mysql). |
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> When I set it to use akonadi as a default resource then kmail freezes up |
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> within 5 minutes. I assume that this is related to akonadi trying to |
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> autosave any changes (as per the 'Tune' tab of the akonadi resource |
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> settings). |
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> Can you see your contacts in kaddressbook? |
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> Any ideas how I could fix it? |
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This has been a major pain in the back side - but I have at long last fixed |
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it. I don't understand why a simple migration script could not be provided by |
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the KDE devs ... or the Gentoo devs ... or anyone who knows more than I? |
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Anyway, these are the steps that I had to follow as plain user: |
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akonadictl stop |
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kill all nepomuk that is running. Check that both akonadi and nepomuk have |
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stopped. |
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Then mv or rm ~/.config/akonadi and ~/.local/share/akonadi. |
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Start akonadi: |
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akonadictl start |
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If like me you are using sqlite instead of mysql, it'll fail because the KDE |
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devs do not (want to) support sqlite and therefore did not add a trivial fix |
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or at least post install user advice pertinent to sqlite. Either way, stop |
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akonadi, go to the directory where the akonadi.db was created and do this: |
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cd ~/.local/share/akonadi/ |
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sqlite3 akonadi.db "INSERT INTO ResourceTable (name,isVirtual) VALUES |
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('akonadi_search_resource','true')" |
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Then I started akonadi, then system settings and from Advanced/KDE Resources I |
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selected Contacts and added a new "Akonadi Address Books" resource. I set it |
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to be used as standard and deselected the old std.vcf resource that I had in |
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there and removed it. |
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Clicked apply, closed everything and restarted akonadi and system settings. |
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Now, I selected the new akonadi resource and clicked edit. Then Manage Address |
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Book Sources and added: |
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'Personal Contacts' pointing it to (~/.local/share/contacts/) |
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On its own it did not work. So I restarted everything and also added: |
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'VCard File' from (~/.kde4/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf) |
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OK'd it all, and restarted for the last time. |
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Phew! At long last my contacts now are showing up in the kaddressbook! :-) |
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The only thing I noticed different from the old kresource set up is that it |
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does not seem to be using/respecting the crypto preferences for particular |
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recipients. It always asks me to use OpenPGP instead of S/MIME even when the |
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recipient only has S/MIME keys in their address crypto details. Not sure if |
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it needs a particular setting that I have not yet found. |
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Anyway, I hope this is of use to anyone who has been troubled on setting |
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KDE4.4 with akonadi and sqlite. |
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Now I'm off to try the same with the box that is running mysql. ;-) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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