Prequesites

Make sure that your OpenSync installation works. My small tutorial starts at the point where you can access your phone with the appropriate provider. So let's start with adding the file-plugin. First, start kitchensync and add a new group, which we'll call "filesync". To this group add the file plugin member. If it is not available, you'll have install the opensync-file-plugin first. Configure and create directory where we'll later store all files that shall be synced. Then, close kitchensync.

Open a terminal and enter msynctool --addmember filesync yourmobilephoneplugin. It may be easier to to this step also in kitchensync but in my case it was easier to use the commandline.

The script

The file-plugin can only handle one-entry-per-file, so we need a small script which will split the vcf file of kaddressbook into several files. Store the following file as /usr/local/bin/vcardsplit.pl and make it executable.

Download: vcardsplit.pl

Go to the folder which you selected for the file-plugin and enter: vcardsplit /path/to/std.vcf. The file may be in ~/.kde/share/apps/kaddressbook/std.vcf but check it first. Finally, you can run msynctool --sync filesync

Todo:

• Make sync-back possible (difficult)
• Write a kaddressbook sync script