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Cressida
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I need help to find/move Kontact address book after reinstall (SOLVED)
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January 19, 2012, 11:36:32 AM »
I reformatted "/" and did a new reinstall of PCL KDE from the CD. Before I did it I backed up /home to an external drive and left /home on it's own partition. (I did not reformat /home just left it alone) When reinstalling I reloaded the same user name and ID number (501) which is the only one I am concerned about.
My problem now is that I need to get the kontact address data to show up in KdePim4 (kontact/kmail). I thought it would show up since I kept the user ID the same and I did not do anything to the /home partition but it doesn't.
Can someone help me with what .kde files or directories to I appear to need to find now in order to get my Kontact address book to show up again within kontact?
I see (and have read about) ".kde/share/config" and the .../share/apps/. I think it is one of these two locations but I cannot seem to find the file with the address book either on my /home partition or the backup copy.
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Re: I need help to find and move Kontact address book after reinstall
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January 19, 2012, 11:45:51 AM »
Cressida
Check:
http://userbase.kde.org/KMail/FAQs_Hints_and_Tips#Transfer_mail_and_settings_to_another_computer_.28or_another_user_account_on_the_same_machine.29
Look under the section - Migration
Hope it helps.
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Re: I need help to find/move Kontact address book after reinstall (SOLVED)
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January 19, 2012, 11:19:46 PM »
Thanks for the link.
It turned out that with the newer versions of Kontact you have to run another package called Kaddressbook.
I never heard of it before. I found and loaded it from Synaptic and the old addresses turned back up.
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