Re: [Evolution] Combining Contact Lists

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 22:20 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 16:31 +0200, Andre Klapper via evolution-list
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 07:15 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > I have two contact lists, which are very similar but not quite
> > > the
> > > same. What's the best way to combine them?
> >
> > Please see https://xyproblem.info/ . Which problem would that
> > solve?
>
> A very good question. For a long time I had a unified list of
> contacts,
> maintained by Google, which was available both to my cell phone and
> to
> evolution. Then Google changed its login procedure so that evolution
> was
> no longer able to access Google's list, and changes made to
> evolution's
> list were no longer reflected on Google's list, and vice versa. Now
> (thanks to some help from Milan C.) Google's list is available to
> evolution, which sees it as a new list. 
>
> So the question is how to create a list (possibly an existing one)
> that
> incorporates the entries made in evolution's and Google's lists.

Google's Contacts app has a de-duplication function. That might be the
easiest solution.

poc