Re: not all Contacts available

On Thursday 25 November 2010, Myrosia Dzikovska wrote:
> I had a similar problem on FC13. For me, the KAddressBook was showing
> two address books: the one I imported from file (which KAddressBook
> helpfully called "Address Book") and another one which seemed to be
> automatically created, called "Personal Contacts". With some
> experimentation and google searching I discovered that KMail only
> showed addressed from Personal Contacts, and not from the imported
> address book. So after I copied everything over to Personal Contacts,
> it showed up again.
> 
> To be honest, I still don't understand why it was like that, and
> found the whole process extremely unintuitive. If anyone has a
> sensible explanation for this, I'd be interested to hear that!

The explanation is that KMail has not yet been ported fully to Akonadi 
(the new backend for all of Kontact's data), but KAddressBook has. 
Therefore certain types of address books are not visible to KMail. With 
the 4.6 release this will finally be fixed.


Regards,
Ingo

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