I just saw that after the update the contacts app magically got access to all of my Google accounts. With that being one bug itself, I also think that when adding contacts manually they shouldn't be overwritten the next time the phone syncs with the Google servers.
Am Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2015 schrieb Niklas Wenzel : > No, all of the contacts on my phone were deleted because the (unrequested) sync deleted all of them. > > Am Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2015 schrieb Simos Xenitellis : >> >> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Niklas Wenzel <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I just lost two thirds of my phone contacts (with no backup) and I wanted to make sure it doesn't happen to you as well. >>> >>> A few minutes ago I upgraded my Nexus 4 to the latest rc-proposed image and instantly after rebooting it started a Google contacts sync. I've never done that before nor had I enabled it in the settings app. Due to the fact that my Gmail address book is always presented first when creating a new contact, lots of people whom I had handed my phone to entered their numbers into my Gmail address book instead of the system/personal one. >>> Now when doing the contacts sync, my phone deleted all of these contacts. >> >> To make this clear, did the sync go towards the wrong direction (the empty local addressbook was pushed to the full online Google addressbook)? >> Google Contacts have some versioning and you can recover/restore deleted contacts if you do this within 30 days of the mishap. >> See more at, for example, http://blog.backupify.com/2013/10/14/google-apps-recovery-restore-lost-gmail-contacts/ >> Simos >>> >>> In order to prevent this, make sure to >>> >>> 1) Turn all manually entered Gmail contacts into ones in the system/personal address book. >>> 2) Back up your contacts before updating your phone. I think they should be in ~/.local/share/evolution, but no guarantee. >>> >>> By the way, I won't have time to file a bug report before the weekend if anyone comes up with that suggestion. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Niklas >>> >>> -- >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >>
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