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[royden yates <royden.yates@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 10:41:27 +0100
Geoff Lowther <ubuntuone@xxxxxxxxx> 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