Re: [Evolution] help with duplicate contacts and merging.

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2019-01-10 at 11:13 -0700, Jeanette Perry wrote:
> fedora 29
> GNOME Ver 3.30.2
>
> problem:
> I am not able to find any way to find duplicates, and/or merge
> contacts within the address books.  I went into a contact and changed
> something, put it back so i could save it, then it asked me if i
> still wanted to do this as i had already a similar contact but it
> didn't ask me if i wanted to merge the contact.  there will be over a
> hundred thousand contacts when i am done, doing this by hand would be
> just not going to happen but i thought i could figure out what/how to
> do something by doing that the first time.  I learned it didn't show
> me the 4 other duplicates, so, even if it worked, it would not have
> merged more then two at a time.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269482 and
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549609 are not resolved.
They are requests to allow searching and merging duplicated contacts.

> solutions that have failed thus far:
> ## the evolution software seems to come already installed with a
> plugin for duplicates for some people, 

Uh? What makes you think so?

> this is not the case for me and someone said to install other
> dependencies first, then i will somehow end up with the plugin?

Cannot comment on this without better, more specific info. "Someone
said something somewhere" is too vague to discuss anything substantial.

>    so, i tried to update my evolution, then i tried to install the
> SCon which told me to install the dependencies for that,

I have no idea what "SCon" is and why you installed that and how that
is related to Evolution. Please provide sufficient context.

Thanks!,
andre
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