Re: Transferring of data between accounts

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On lör, 2015-12-19 at 17:38 +0100, Marius Melzer wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a problem with my Gnome Contacts and I don't really know how
> to
> resolve this. I initially got my contacts into Gnome Contacts by the
> Owncloud Online Account. After I reinstalled my owncloud last week,
> apparently Gnome Contacts changed without asking the default where
> the
> data should go (observable on "Change Adress Book") to Local Adress
> Book
> instead of the Owncloud one where the contacts originated from. It
> also
> didn't warn me that I would now add locally saved information to
> owncloud contacts. So after having spent some hours into adding
> additional information to my contacts in the Gnome Contacts app I
> realised that they did not appear on the owncloud. So Gnome Contacts
> let
> me add contact information to an Owncloud contact and saved them (and
> only them, not the rest of the contact) to the local adress book.
> This
> is already a bit strange behaviour, isn't it? I realised this "split"
> after I deactivated my owncloud online account and activated it again
> because then I had all the changed accounts twice: One time only with
> the local changes that I made and a second one with the current state
> of
> the owncloud. Gnome Contacts then asks me every time when I click on
> one
> of the Owncloud contacts if I want to join it with the other contact
> (the local one), but if I click yes, nothing really happens. Both
> contact stay there as they were. Also: I can only guess that the
> contacts with the new changes are local and the other ones from the
> owncloud, I can't see that anywhere. Also I don't really understand
> what
> should actually happen when clicking on "yes" to the join. Would the
> information then be added to the local or the owncloud contact? Only
> a
> theoretical question because it doesn't seem to work.
>
> Long story short, my questions are:
> (1) Can you imagine a good way to solve my problem, I don't really
> want
> to manually add all the information again and delete the local
> contacts

I've not worked on contacts for a bit so I'm a bit rusty. But first you
need to set back the default address book to owncloud. This is done in
the app-menu for gnome-contacts. 

Its a bit weird that merging didn't work. Maybe its because your
default address book was still local?

If you want to see more cleanly which contacts are stored where, I
would recommend starting evolution and looking at the addressbooks from
there. It doesn't do any merging, so may be less confusing.

-- 
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
 Alexander Larsson                                            Red Hat, Inc 
       alexl redhat com            alexander larsson gmail com 
He's a lounge-singing moralistic vampire hunter with a winning smile and 
a way with the ladies. She's a sarcastic punk detective fleeing from a 
Satanic cult. They fight crime!