Re: Fwd: Fwd: Re: OpenSuSE Upgrade misadventures: Anybody got KAddressBook 4.7 to work?

On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:45:08 Guy K. Kloss wrote:
> Hope this one reaches its destination. Thunderbird is giving me grief
> with my multiple identities and different email addresses ... :-(
> 
> @list admin: sorry for the inconvenience, wasn't intended.
> 
> Guy
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [nzlug] OpenSuSE Upgrade misadventures: Anybody got
> KAddressBook 4.7 to work?
> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:56:36 +1300
> From: Guy K. Kloss <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 08/12/11 11:58, Neil Harsant wrote:
> > 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've been through similar tortures when upgrading Ubuntu to Oneiric. The
> culprit is not the distribution (I dread SuSE, but in this case they're
> just "riding out" the KDE flaw). The problem is (A) the kmail -> kmail2
> migration tool which errors out, and (B) shortcomings in the
> functionality of managing resources with kmail2/akonadi. I've had to
> suffer email losses (well, they're backed up, but in the process it lost
> mail in the current setup), which sucks big time. I've tried several
> approaches to hand-migrate, which worked, but in the end also caused
> other troubles with all of a sudden mail duplication (and huge increases
> in mail size in the duplicates), mail loss, and other annoyances.
> 
> Below you'll find some URLs to stuff that helped me do the job and
> understand the problem. However, as stated, I've given up on the current
> kmail(2) and am using Thunderbird until things are going to be better.
> I've heard from other sources that the upcoming KDE 4.8 is also not
> supposed to have any improvements in stock for the kmail/akonadi issue
> ... :(
> 
> Guy
> 
> http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3118508.0
> http://userbase.kde.org/KMail/FAQs_Hints_and_Tips#Migration
> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/OneiricOcelot/Final/Kubuntu/Kmail2
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdepim/+bug/857828

Thanks for the URLs.
Archiving email folders one by one from a pre-Upgrade copy of
my home on an earlier OpenSuSE 11.4 system then restoring into
a clean new home on SuSE 12.1 means I have a fully working
Email and Calendar but I am still stuck with that empty
KAddressBook. I've tried various suggestions I've found on
the web on how to transfer address book entries but none
have produced a visable addressbook on Kontact Version 4.7.2
The addresses appear to import according to counts but
nothing shows up in KAddressBook. I have tried adding a
dummy  Address entry but that does not result in an entry
so manual re-entry isn't a work-around either.

  As I said before - Any usable suggestions/work arounds welcome
     Neil

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