Re: [Evolution] Deleted contacts keep reappearing

[Andrea Vai <andrea vai unipv it>]

2015-08-30 2:43 GMT+02:00 Paul <pol_pak yahoo com au>:

On Fri, 2015-08-28 at 10:01 +0200, Andrea Vai wrote:
> Il giorno ven, 28/08/2015 alle 09.42 +0200, Dario Lesca ha scritto:
> > Il giorno gio, 27/08/2015 alle 13.15 +0200, Andrea Vai ha scritto:
> > > I would like to remove them all, so tried to remove the address
> > book
> > > and create a new one, but the context menu of the address book
> > does
> > > not show the option to remove it, so I don't know how to remove
> > the
> > > address book.
> >
> > You must create a new temp address book.
> >
> > Right click on it, select property and set "preferred address book".
> >
> > Now you can remove other address book
>
> Thank you for the reply, but unfortunately I did already try it
> without success. The address book in question is not marked as the
> default one. It is the first in the list "On This Computer", and it
> does not have the option to remove it despite it is not marked as
> default. I also tried to set it as default, and then set another one
> as default, but the problem is still there...

Earlier topic Andrea Vai advised using Google.
IF contacts re-appearing are Google/Yahoo contacts, believe may now need
log into Google/Yahoo to edit/remove contact details.
Paul.

 

Thanks Paul, I also use a google account but the problem is related to a local address book. I actually have populated this address book by copying and pasting from the google account, but I think that the entries in the local account are now totally unlinked from the google address book.

I can imagine that if (as far as I know) the address book items are stored in a (sqlite?) database, some SQL query could help me in deleting them, but - assuming that my guess is correct - I don't know what are the correct tables and fields, so I don't know what query I could execute to delete them safely.

Thanks, and bye

Andrea

[PS please don't top post on this list, I have manually moved your comment down here]

 

>
> Thank you to anyone helping me on this,
>
> Andrea
>
>
>
> >
> > Ciao
> >
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