From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RR9ED-00039B-K1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:10:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60C9121C1F4; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:10:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 360DC21C020 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:09:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf27 with SMTP id 27so3456793wwf.10 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:09:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hGnJ/1vE6Weie7fplLGvulhP6v3Bq0jpqVgDrxZuJeQ=; b=vDJVgvfq66Bk07O3zcBSRk/N4H3FK7DEbH36wl82dScqs/6IfKk15qzZmlw6D3T9tI I1gbkDdCCVebcXdgFHP7VEpvWU+hYuPb1QOMQc0dRKIznjM/O8ST4HXZVgxtVJw/FF6/ +k955GBa88lnQOGJuniU0vi+wkquX/ozOBpkY= Received: by 10.227.209.71 with SMTP id gf7mr213261wbb.11.1321564149379; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:09:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from rohan.example.com ([196.215.144.97]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e7sm38171368wbh.12.2011.11.17.13.09.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:09:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:08:59 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible for F5 to delete all contacts in Kmail?!!! Message-ID: <20111117230859.50d81906@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: <201111172101.55130.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <201111151939.19247.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20111117105621.0a381b36@rohan.example.com> <201111172101.55130.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fc425f73-e729-450d-a5e8-4396a40aa0cc X-Archives-Hash: 136a7256483befe7b29fbdd4b488a47f On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:01:44 +0000 Mick wrote: > I did not manually edit anything on the addressbook in question (and > the user in question would not know how to do that). I am told that > she just pressed the F5 button and bang! All contacts gone in an > instant! To me this is rather catastrophic as a failure mode and I > cannot categorise this software as anything better than amateurish. > Of course I can't code, so I get what's there for now ... I would *strongly* suspect the usual cause of such things - the user did indeed do something that triggered the delete but has forgotten doing it as they don't think it relevant. However, the fact that kdepim just deleted stuff without so much as a nag dialog is a bug in itself. At least you didn't lose three years of mail like happened to me. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com