OpenSuSE Upgrade misadventures: Anybody got KAddressBook 4.7 to work?

After giving up on the flawed OpenSuSE 11.4upgrade  to 12.1 I did a clean
install but retained my /home directory tree. 
The OpenSuSE 11.4 to 12.1 Kmail/Kontact migration to the "new & Improved?"
 4.7 versions  turned out to be long, frustrating and ultimately futile. 
this seems to be a common experience
I gave up and created a new "clean" home directory to eliminate any "legacy"
configuration settings. 
 I loaded an archive of my my /home (from before upgrading attempts ) onto
a spare OpenSuSE 11.4 system and then successfully archived all mail
folders which then "Imported" onto the new Kmail system. Calendar and
"ToDo list" were saved from the old system and after some fiddling were
also installed and viewable on the new Version 4.7.2 Kontact.
 Efforts to transfer KAddressBook addresses has been a total failure.
Whatever I've tried so far none of the addresses show up.
-  Copied ~/.kde4/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf to the new system - Nothing shows.
-  In Contacts tried "File -> New -> New Contact -> Added manual item =>
		 Nothing shows
- Tried clicking on the email address of an email to add it to the address
   book - nothing shows.
- Verified ownerships and permissions of all Kontact files - All are correct
- In Old AddressBook File -> Export -> (Tried vCard(s), csv, GMX etcetera)
  then tried import in new Kontact => Import runs but still nothing shows up.
- Played with akonadiconsole -- Pointers seem to be correct
- Searched internet - Lots of similar problems and lots of suggestions but
with an extremely low useful signal to noise ratio.

Any insightful ideas gratefully received
   Neil


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