Re: Cannot create new addressbook

On Tuesday, 2014-09-09, 09:38:41, George Czerw wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 09, 2014 03:31:43 PM Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 2014-09-09, 09:15:34, George Czerw wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, September 09, 2014 02:23:02 PM Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday, 2014-09-09, 14:02:53, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > > > > I was surprised to find that I cannot create a new address book
> > > > > of my choice - if I go to KAddressBook->New->AddressBook
> > > > 
> > > > There should be New -> New Group
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Kevin
> > > 
> > > I'm using version 4.13.3 on PClinuxOS.  For me, using kMail/kontact up
> > > to
> > > and including this version,  the "New Group" option has always, and
> > > continues to be "greyed out" and non selectable.  If anyone can tell me
> > > why, and what I could do to remedy this issue, I'd be most grateful.
> > 
> > This most likely means that none of your configured addressbooks has the
> > capability to store contact groups.
> > 
> > For example the "Personal Contacts" backend can do that.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> Thanks for that reply.  So, in looking at my Akonadi configuration, I have
> only an addressbook that utilizes a v-card file.  I see that I can add an
> addressbook with Personal Contacts.  If I do that, will it automatically
> pick up the information that is now stored in the v-card file?  If not,
> what will I have to do to load that information?

The new addressbook will be a separate storage location and empty after 
creation.

You can copy the contacts from the first one and then then delete the first 
one, or keep them both and just not activate one, or just keep the second 
addressbook for the groups.

Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
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