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[Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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