all contacts lost - address book resource truncated to zero

This was marked resolved upstream but appears to still be happening to some folks. Is there any way you can verify that this is still an issue? Thank you.

Thank you for reporting this bug.

There was a bug that was fixed in Dapper a long time ago, and it was fixed in upstream aswell. It only happens to people who are not up-to-date or use unofficial KDE < 3.5.2 packages on Breezy.

However, this one seems different since it happens on recent Dapper. In the previous bug, you could reproduce by doing the following :
1) Open kontact
2) Open a new email and fill in the recipient field with anything. Do not close the email
3) Go to the kaddressbook section of Kontact
4) Close Kontact

This is how you would lose all your contacts with the previous bug. Can you still reproduce it this way? If you can't, can you provide some informations on how to reproduce it?

This bug is still present. I don't know yet how to reproduce. I'll try what you suggest in the preceeding comment.

I just started my PC 10 mns ago. Kontact starts as part of my automatic kde session restore proccessing. And I found my kde contact resources dir like this :
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 0 2006-05-12 04:55 pc_perso.vcf
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 102753 2006-05-08 06:07 pc_perso.vcf_1
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 102747 2006-05-09 02:25 pc_perso.vcf_2
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 102728 2006-05-10 01:59 pc_perso.vcf_3
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 102783 2006-05-11 10:06 pc_perso.vcf_4
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 0 2006-05-12 04:55 pc_perso.vcf_5
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 102783 2006-05-06 06:04 pc_perso.vcf_6
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 102783 2006-05-07 00:02 pc_perso.vcf_7
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 102753 2006-05-07 00:02 pc_perso.vcfsruDSb.new
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 22588 2006-02-03 20:54 pc_pro.vcf
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 22588 2006-01-30 04:43 pc_pro.vcf_1
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 22588 2006-01-31 01:33 pc_pro.vcf_2
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 22588 2006-02-01 02:06 pc_pro.vcf_3
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 22588 2006-02-02 12:05 pc_pro.vcf_4
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 22588 2006-02-03 20:54 pc_pro.vcf_5
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 22588 2006-01-28 06:24 pc_pro.vcf_6
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 22588 2006-01-22 15:35 pc_pro.vcf_7
-rw-r--r-- 1 pascal pascal 5073 2006-05-01 02:21 treo.vcf
-rw-r--r-- 1 pascal pascal 5073 2006-05-01 02:21 treo.vcf_1
-rw-r----- 1 pascal pascal 5073 2006-04-30 14:32 treo.vcf_2
-rw-r--r-- 1 pascal pascal 5073 2006-04-26 11:55 treo.vcf_3
-rw-r--r-- 1 pascal pascal 5073 2006-04-27 03:43 treo.vcf_4
-rw-r--r-- 1 pascal pascal 5073 2006-04-28 02:01 treo.vcf_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 pascal pascal 5073 2006-04-29 02:42 treo.vcf_6
-rw-r--r-- 1 pascal pascal 4915 2006-04-30 14:29 treo.vcf_7

So you can see I just lost my main address book pc_perso.vcf at 2006-05-12 04:55. This time correspond at the automatic shutdown of KDE by kshutdown last night.

On the other way you can also see a temporary address book file left there pc_perso.vcfsruDSb.new five days before.

Maybe the bug is due to kontact beeing shutdowned at the wrong moment when an address book is rotated...

I tried the old scenario suggested to trigger the old bug, but with no success. So the way to reproduce stays mysterious. It has something to do with kontact shutdown and maybe adress book rotation.

I also have to try shutting down kontact while it receives mails (pop3).

still occuring - this is a showstopper for me :(

-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 0 2006-05-26 03:26 pc_perso.vcf
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 102731 2006-05-22 04:51 pc_perso.vcf_1
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 102667 2006-05-23 05:33 pc_perso.vcf_2
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 0 2006-05-24 02:48 pc_perso.vcf_3
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 0 2006-05-25 02:23 pc_perso.vcf_4
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 0 2006-05-26 03:26 pc_perso.vcf_5
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 102677 2006-05-20 11:21 pc_perso.vcf_6
-rw-rw---- 1 pascal pascal 102701 2006-05-21 14:37 pc_perso.vcf_7

my kde adressbook is not at the regular location
It seems to happen after I added photos to some entries in my adress book, but cannot be sure.

cannot reproduce again with kde 3.5.4

Can anyone still reproduce this bug?

I can't. KDE 3.5.4 on Edgy, no reproducing here.

No one, including the original reporter, can reproduce the bug in kde 3.5.4. Closing. Please reopen if it's still a problem.