[wellylug] Problems with KAddressbook

[Jonathan Harker]

Alex wrote:

> What user are you running Kmail as... ? it sounds like the user you logged
> in as does not have write access to the file or directory the file is in ...
> try running as root, if it works as root, then its a file permission
> problem.  It is possible the files are owned by root and the ownership will
> have to be changed to your regular user ... or write access will need to be
> set ..
> 
> -alex.

I concur - check the permissions on files in

~/.kde/share/apps/kab
~/.kde/share/apps/kabc

Jonathan