Bug 625796

Is the addressbook you select marked read-only in its properties?  I cannot reproduce this with 11.3 default or  the KDE:Distro:Stable packages I am preparing for an online update with.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Is the addressbook you select marked read-only in its properties?  I cannot
> reproduce this with 11.3 default or  the KDE:Distro:Stable packages I am
> preparing for an online update with.
I am presuming you mean /home/Prexy/.local/share/contacts.  When opening kaddressbook, this is called akonadi.  I also have default for an addressbook but it is not selected.  Checking on /home/Prexy/.local/share/contacts, the "Read only" box is not checked.  Using dolphin and selecting the contacts folder, only the owner (me) was allowed write access.  I changed this to allow everyone write access and apply to all subfolders and files.

Opening kaddressbook, Groups (or add new group) is available until I select an addressbook.  Then the group option immediately grays out.  This is the same as before.  Am I checking the right place for permissions?

I meant in the Address Book Properties dialog you see when you right click an address book.  Can you check that?

I assumed that your file system is owned by and read-write for your KDE user.

I was able to reproduce this with a vcard file resource however, which seems to have forgotten the path to the vcard file.  Investigating further.

(In reply to comment #3)
> I meant in the Address Book Properties dialog you see when you right click an
> address book.  Can you check that?
> 
> I assumed that your file system is owned by and read-write for your KDE user.
> 
> I was able to reproduce this with a vcard file resource however, which seems to
> have forgotten the path to the vcard file.  Investigating further.

Right-clicking on either addressbook brings up a dialog box that I see when I click on the address book properties "wrench" in upper right of kaddressbook window.  Checking both addressbooks, Read-only box is NOT checked.  I see no other place to check or change permissions in this dialog box.  Both addressbook folders contain vcf files. Was there another way to import the old address entries?

Any change here?  Have you tried KDE:Release:45 from the buildservice?

There has been no change. I am up to 4.5.3 (KDE 4.5.3) "release 8" and kernel 2.6.34.7-0.5-default i686.  Is there any other info I can supply which might be of help?

If you create an entirely new user, can you create and populate groups?

(In reply to comment #7)
> If you create an entirely new user, can you create and populate groups?

I tried 2 things.  First, cause it was easier, I tried to use kaddressbook as root.  That failed because of akonadi problems.

I then created a user and opened kaddressbook.  That preselected the "Personal Contacts" type of address book.  It allowed me to enter contacts and create a new group "Family" and add some contacts to that group. I did not think to try to import my big contacts file, which is vcard.  I tried this in vbox running 11.4 M3 with the same result.

Also, I could not figure out how to add more contacts to my existing group.  I created a new group and added 2 contacts.  But I could see anyway to add more once the group had been created.

Good morning.

Akonadi uses MySQL internally which prohibits running as root.

To add more contacts to a group, right click the group name and select 'Edit Group...' then you can start to enter a contact's name on the first empty row.

I'm on #opensuse-kde on Freenode IRC, if you want some high-bandwidth time figuring out why it doesn't work on the 11.3 normal user.

I added a new addressbook to my user of the type "Personal Contacts."  That allows me add new groups. I did not have to "populate" this new addressbook with entries to create a group and add members.  The members of the new group were drawn from the akonadi addressbook.  My "Personal Contacts" addressbook has only one member and that is the group I created.  Selecting the akonadi addressbook or the so-called "default" addressbook no longer grays out the "new group" option.  However, when the dialog box opens to create a new group, the only option is to create it the Personal Contacts addressbook and not akonadi or default.  Is this expected behavior and I have been doing it wrong all this time?  I can use this behavior as a work around but it requires that I change addressbook selection each time I want to look up a group.

Thanks for the invitation to IRC but I think it has been 20 years since I last used IRC and I don't remember how!

Mass closing extant bug reports for old openSUSE versions.