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Where does the kmail address book live

Asked by Kimdino

Hi,
I have migrated from Mandriva to Kubuntu. Before I dumped Mandriva I backed up my home partition so that I could carry on 'as was' in Kubuntu. I was hoping I could just pick up my Mandiva /home/dino/.* directories & drop then into Kubuntus' /home/dino/ directory but now realise things aren't that simple.

I have found that I can take the Mandriva /home/dino/.Mail as /home/dino/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail and I get the folders and message headers appearing in kmail. However, when I click on a message the header changes to 'No subject' with everything else 'unknown'.

What really does me in, though, is that I need the address book restored and do not where it should be or what to look for. 'What to look for' so that I can unearth it from my Mandriva backup and 'Where it should be' so that I can place it in Kubuntu. Can anyone help me with this, please?

Any further help on properly restoring the Inbox would be appreciated as well.

Thanks in advance, Kimdino

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Kimdino (kimdino) said : 		#1

BTW I forgot to add. My Kubuntu version is Gutsy Gibbon.

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Kimdino (kimdino) said : 		#3

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Best Tillmann Falck (tfalck) said : 		#4

Hello Kimdino!

First to the e-mail question:
KMail has the ability to import old E-Mails. Therefore open KMail and go to File->Import Messages
You get the same result by launching the importer directly (which is called kmailcvt).

The addressbook:
I assume that you used KDE on Mandriva as well and refer to the KDE addressbook. (Otherwise I am most likely not able to help)
The standard addressbook for KDE is stored in
.kde/share/apps/kabc/
The .vcf files are what you are looking for (the *__somenumber files are AFAIK backups). You can either just copy that file to its new location or again import it using the File->Import->Import vCards... wizard from within kaddressbook.

Hope this helps.

Regards
Tillmann

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Kimdino (kimdino) said : 		#5

Hi Tillmann,

This solved the problem nicely. I now have all my addresses back. Thank you very much.

Cheers, Kimdino