Re: [Evolution] contacts

[Redeeman <redeeman metanurb dk>]

this isnt what happend, i just installed multisync, synced to laptop,
and then next time it synced, (some mins) where i made no changes at
all, there was duplicates :/

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 01:32, Armin Bauer wrote:
> On reason that could produce duplicates is the way multisync works... if
> it encounters changes on both sides it will duplicate the contact so
> that the user can delete the contact he does not want to have on one
> side. so if for some reason multisync thinks that a lot of the contacts
> are modified on both (this could be if you did not sync for a long time)
> it will produce a lot of duplicates.
>
> Multisync is writen to no interfere with the user. so there are (almost)
> no popup boxes or stuff like this.
>
> Armin
>
> On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 20:47, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 17:11, Redeeman wrote:
> > > you are the hero! 173 contacts saved! would have taken me ages to
> > > recreate, from now on i will make vcard backups of it :D
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 17:32, guenther wrote:
> > > > > i played with multisync, and it syncs, but duplicates, not a big deal, i
> > > > > just removed the duplicates, but that showed up to be deleting
> > > > > everything, as it showed them twice only, and it synced my workstation
> > > > > like that too, so now i have no contacts, i though "ok, i will just look
> > > > > at my backup archive", i made a bzip2 of my ~/evolution. in that dir i
> > > > > see local/contacts, and there are some files there, but it doesent work
> > > > > just to copy them from my bzip2 into ~/evolution. why? is it saved in
> > > > > gconf? how do i recover? (if its possible)
> >
> > I'm sorry to hear that you have had problems.  I can assure you that it
> > works for me.  Th duplicates I had were the contacts that had 'drifted'
> > on one machine.  For instance, one had a new phone number, another had a
> > new email address.  I love this feature.  Anyway, to point out that at
> > least my experiences with Multisync are positive.
> >
> > [...]
>
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