On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 10:41:27 +0100 Geoff Lowther <[email protected]> wrote:
> I realize that there's a lot of talk on here at the moment > about being able to back up the phone to a > desktop/server/cloud somewhere - I agree that the phone needs > this facility as otherwise I'm stepping back to before I had a > Palm Treo 650 - that had a separate program on the desktop > that ran primarily under windows but ran equally as nicely > under wine. > > I reluctantly put my contacts onto google and 'upgraded' to a > HTC Desire running Android 2.x or similar when the Treo was on > it's last legs, realizing that at this point I had really lost > control of where my data is/was. I am now trying to take > control of it again... > > I am trying to sort out my contacts on my MX4. > > I synced the MX4 with google originally (September time 2015) > and it seemed to corrupt google contacts by losing some > complete entries and losing fields in other entries - > fortunately I could restore the contacts in google. I then > removed the syncing and ran it completely separately - not > ideal, but works for the most part. > > I had to relink to my google account again for another reason > (it escapes me why at the moment) and I now have duplicates in > my address book that I want to rationalize. > > From what I believed, the contacts are stored as a db file > under home/phablet/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system > called contacts.db. I believed as well that it is really an > evolution contacts database file (more than just stored there > in a clever format). > > I therefore tried to be clever, installed evolution on my > desktop PC and then copied the contacts.db file across and > replaced the file > in /home/namehere/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system > > When I open evolution it can't seem to access that file though > (I've set the permissions the same) - may be just something to > do with the address book names inside the contacts.db file but > don't know. > > Does anyone have any 'end-user' type ideas for how to open the > contacts file in a readable way so that I can modify it, > re-save it, then transfer it back down to the phone please. > > I'm not a programmer, but more of an end-user who understands > sufficiently about Linux to 'get by' sometimes on the command > line but preferring to use a GUI where possible. > > Any suggestions welcome > > Many thanks > Geoff > Hi, see https://gurucubano.gitbooks.io/bq-aquaris-e-4-5-ubuntu-phone/content/en/chapter9.html Might be some pointers there. Regards, Royden -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
