Re: Well I'm stumped.

On Seg, 2013-01-07 at 16:40 -0500, Allan Topp wrote: 
> Thank you for your prompt response.
> 
> I had actually already consulted all of the URLs that you provided and, 
> unless I am blind, there is nothing in any of them that addresses the 
> issues that I have related.
> 
> Surely exporting (and subsequently importing) address books can't be 
> this problematic!
> 
> Look forward to additional help in due course.

Normally the keyword is migration 

http://userbase.kde.org/KMail/FAQs_Hints_and_Tips#Migration

and migration normally is copy some files under ~/.kde ...


> On 01/07/2013 03:50 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > On Seg, 2013-01-07 at 15:41 -0500, Allan Topp wrote:
> >> I want to transfer my kaddressbook data to a new computer.
> >>
> >> The existing one is 4.4.5 and has a Personal Contacts book with a couple
> >> of hundred entries AND a dozen sub folders each containing dozens of
> >> entries.
> >>
> >> If I try to export "everything" (i.e. include sub folders) I do not get
> >> them and the entries are not clean - in some cases one contact shows up
> >> three times.  And this is true with ldif and vcard.
> >>
> >> If I try to export the subfolders individually by renaming them, I end
> >> up with only one file called addressbook.  I'm not sure what it's doing
> >> - ignoring the export or overwriting or changing it back to addressbook.
> >>
> >> Either way I am getting nowhere.
> >>
> >> Can someone please help.
> > http://userbase.kde.org/KAddressBook_4.4
> >
> > http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi_and_AddressBook
> >
> > http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi_4.4/Troubleshooting
> >
> 

-- 
Sérgio M. B.

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