[Sussex] Locked address book in Kontact

[Paul Willis]

Just to expand on Jan's answer above, from the command line:

rm -i /home/peter/.kde/share/apps/kabc/lock/*.lock

is the interactive delete which will print each filename for deletion
so that you can y or n it.

If you want to use the graphical route you will probably have to show
hidden files (the .kde bit will be hidden by its leading .) - in
nautilus (ubuntu) you type control-h to toggle view to include or hide
the dotted names - konqueror may have its own method - try a view menu
or other help.

Paul

On 20 December 2012 22:38, Jan Henkins <jan at henkins.za.net> wrote:
> Hello Peter,
>
> When your computer seized up, all processes crashed. Sometimes this leaves
> behind lock files of some description, which you need to delete manually.
> You can go into the folder mentioned in the last sentence of the error
> message and delete all files with names ending in ".lock". You can do this
> in several ways, my favourite being the command line, or you can use the
> Konquerer or Dolphin file managers to do the same.
>
>
>
> Peter Humphreys <peter at humphreys999.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone, and season's greetings
>>
>> I managed to do a silly thing the other day, I tried to download 4Gb of
>> data for OpenSUSE 12.2 when I only had 2.5Gb disk space for it to go in..
>> oops.
>>
>> Unsurprisingly the machine seized up, and whilst I have managed to get it
>> going again by a 'crash course' (haha) in the command line and emptying the
>> /tmp folder (at runlevel 1) and clearing out larger items from the Trash
>> folder, the address book in 'Kontact' is seized up with the message below
>> popping up every time I try to open an address card.
>>
>> The address book '/home/peter/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf' is locked by
>>
>> application ''.
>>
>> If you believe this is incorrect, just remove the lock file
>>
>> from '/home/peter/.kde/share/apps/kabc/lock/*.lock'
>>
>> I cannot see how to 'just remove the lock file' - I had a look to see what
>> processes are running by using 'top' but that led me nowhere.
>>
>> Has anyone any suggestions on how I can remove this lock, please?
>>
>> The machine (this one) - is a Dell Inspiron 4600 tower - and is running
>> OpenSUSE 11.0
>>
>> Any suggestions gratefully received!
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Peter Humphreys
>>
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