Kmail address book error [SOLVED]

[Dave Stevens]

BINGO!

It turns out that there is a path ,/home/dave/.kde/share/apps/kabc/lock in my 
case, that had two files in it. Erasing both allowed me to restart Kmail and 
resume adding to the address book.

Thanks to all who helped.

Dave
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