[Bug 47919] kontact / kadressbook creates duplicate contacts

[magdalen]

Public bug reported:

I'm running Kubuntu dapper, and I've been having multiple problems with
kontact and kadressbook. This is close to a stock install with the
address book vcf stored locally in my user profile. I searched bug
reports here and with google but did not find this posted, please
forgive if it is a duplicate.

I've been adding contacts to my address book by right-clicking on the
email address in the kontact window and choosing Add to Address Book.
It's listing some of the names twice in the Contacts list, but if I
delete one of them it deletes them both so there's really kind of only
one entry.

I have three Address Books configured in the Contacts window, and
thought maybe a contact is listed multiple times because it's in more
than one Address Book. I tried to right-click on the contact and choose
Store Contact In to assign, and just get the message "The resource
'/home/magdalen/.kde/share/apps/kabc/stdvcf' is locked by application
'kontact'."

For a moment I got around this by closing Kontact and on a commandline
using the command kaddressbook & but sometimes I still get the locked
vcf message and i'm not having much luck assiging my contacts to one and
only one address book. I'm not even sure which ones are crosslisted at
this point, or if that's even the cause of this.

Please email me if you want me to send you screenshots or you want more
information. Thanks! And thanks to all developers for making this FREE
and wonderfully useful software. I'm so glad I'm not dependant on trying
to crack WinXP anymore, what a crapjob that is considering how expensive
it is, and that you guys do this in your spare time because you love it
truly shows . . . . Ubuntu and KDE are great products! It's to the point
where it's as easy to install and use Kubuntu as it is to install and
use M$ Windoze, at least for someone unfamiliar wtih either. Mad props!

Amber

launchpad_net at magdala.us

** Affects: kdepim (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

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kontact / kadressbook creates duplicate contacts
https://launchpad.net/bugs/47919